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Netflix-Style Memberships — A Better Business Model For Orchestras Than Subscriptions?: “You pay a monthly membership fee … that entitles you to attend however much you’d like. As with a gym or a streaming service, some people may go often; some, not at… https://t.co/p6sdjDdOh8

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Gustavo Dudamel Says Wherever His Career Takes Him, He’s Never Leaving L.A.: “Maybe the New York Philharmonic can, as Paris Opera couldn’t, become a new family. But he launched his career in L.A. He grew up and matured with the L.A. Phil, where he… https://t.co/OM9WqKBJNR

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Rebels Have Looted National Museum Of Sudan: Report: “Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have reportedly looted the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum and smuggled some of its artifacts across the country’s southern border. Backed by the… https://t.co/hs2BwzZyKj

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Alvin Ailey Gets A Show At The Whitney Museum: “One of the most ambitious shows the museum has ever presented — six years in the making and bigger than any Whitney biennial — it tracks the development of an American art form through Ailey’s singular… https://t.co/ogjuqrZ0Fc

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Should opera companies just slash their ticket prices?: The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Opera Philadelphia is radically cutting their prices (the article is paywalled, but you get 6 months of the Inquirer for a buck, which is not a very high… https://t.co/n6y02dNCVg

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Walking Well: Walking more often and more contemplatively. https://t.co/RqdeBrDV6K

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An Expansive Wingspan: Spreading your wings like a crane. https://t.co/EpVK73TWbA

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Despite Injury And Long Recovery, Ian McKellen Does Not Intend To Retire: “I shall just keep at it as long as the legs and the lungs and the mind keep working,” says the 85-year-old actor. As for his film role as Gandalf, “I’m not letting anyone else put… https://t.co/IlUVpBXAmv

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Today’s AJ Highlights: Good morning: Every day we send you a list of 20 stories. But we realize some of you want to cut right to the top stories, so today we’re trying out a new feature – a list of highlights from across what we found. You can still jump… https://t.co/kx4qJobuai

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The Kinds Of Shows Audiences Are Looking For Now: In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like more of a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of the real world. But the dark comedies, by their very… https://t.co/a3z7Vz8DcV

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How Should Traditional Museums Think About Immersive Experiences?: What we found leads us to believe that, when it comes to immersive art, established art museums are stuck between staying on the sidelines of a potentially lucrative market or having to… https://t.co/fFHWo4x1Fx

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Opera Philadelphia’s Big Ticketing Experiment: How the math nets out in the end remains to be seen. Last season’s production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, for instance, had a higher average ticket price, but sold just 51% of available seats. Even if all… https://t.co/kzAEAuFEls

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Staatsballett Berlin Director Christian Spuck Reflects On His First Year On The Job: “We’re the only company in the world that performs in three different opera houses (in one city). … One-hundred-and-twenty people work at this institution. When I… https://t.co/Mzi7kphrrj

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Douthat: Why We Don’t Build Beautiful Buildings Anymore: “We don’t necessarily need to repeal the laws of economics or solve Baumol’s cost disease to build as beautifully as our ancestors once did. We just need to see the world more humanistically and… https://t.co/1l6FCQ8kMI

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CDs Have Always Had A Flaw. Streaming Could Fix It: The majority of your CDs have probably been downsampled perilously from studio to disc. And streaming has now righted that wrong; we can indeed enjoy ‘studio-quality’ music from the streams of the… https://t.co/CQjzvcge5j

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Simon Verity, 79, Master Stone Mason Who Led Work At New York’s St. John The Divine: “As a sculptor he contributed to cathedrals both old and young, from survivors of the Middle Ages such as Exeter and Wells to the unfinished 19th-century behemoth of St… https://t.co/qbi2bQk9yx

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Another Semester Of ChatGPT Havoc At Universities: “If the first year of AI college ended in a feeling of dismay, the situation has now devolved into absurdism.” – The Atlantic https://t.co/hBsQgcx2bC

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Good Investment? I Paid My Kid $100 To Read A Book: My daughter is a whip-smart kid, definitely smarter than I was at 12. But until I resorted to bribery, she’d never read an entire chapter book for pleasure. – The New York Times https://t.co/VXy5bWUwey

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Academic Publisher Wiley Sells AI Rights For $44 Million, Won’t Permit Authors To Opt Out: “Wiley has already earned $23 million from AI deals and confirmed … that it is set to make a further $21m this financial year. A spokesperson confirmed that Wiley… https://t.co/QyZ5Gyxu9N

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The Successful Musician: An AI Advantage: “AI-generated songs lack the fluidity of music created by humans. But musicians who experiment with AI can give themselves an edge in an evolving industry. AI can expedite their own creative work and provide… https://t.co/kQQu34BcDy