Public Radio Arts Round-up – May 18, 2012

A sampling of arts coverage on yesterday’s flagship public radio programs…

Tributes to disco queen Donna Summer from All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, and today’s Morning Edition

All Things Considered: A “grey” novel about a Lithuanian girl exiled to Siberia is mistaken for another “grey” S&M blockbuster… A profile of force-of-nature jazz pianist Cecil Taylor

Marketplace: The String Cheese Incident scalps their own tickets to thwart Ticketmaster…

Tell Me More: Glenn Close speaks out about her sister’s mental illness and the non-profit she co-founded as a result…

The World: Australian-based Bollywood-style rockers, The Bombay Royale

This morning…
Morning Edition:
A look at 150 years of the bugle call “Taps”

For the weekend…
This American Life
rebroadcasts their live show

On Being profiles 23-year old wunderkind poet Sarah Kay

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BU Inspire – Tomorrow

Tomorrow we hit BU Inspire for our second appearance.

Our talk, “A Brief History of the End of the World (As Told by Poets, Musicians, Filmmakers, and other Such Lunatics),” features a little of this culture, some of this poet, a smidge of this musician, a pass-through of this franchise, and a dabbling into this TV series. A fun mashup.

And you should come. See the list of speakers, and register.  (It’s free.)

See y’all soon!

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BU Inspire – Back again!

We’ve just been selected to present at the next BU Inspire event on Sunday, April 29, 2-4pm @ Tsai Performance Center.

We had a great time at the last one and look forward to bantering around ideas on their topic: “Rethinking the End.”

Watch this space for details…

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Snark/Countersnark – a dance debate

To Snark or Not to Snark

A new twist on the role of critics in the arts, this time from a Dance/NYC “Meet the Press” symposium late last month.

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Arts Origins – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar…on the congas!

 

 

Jazz was and is a big influence on this master of hoops.  Here he talks about Cab Calloway trying out for the Harlem Globetrotters (and making it!) and here about dancing to Thelonious Monk…

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Arts Origins – Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs brushes up on his barbershop chops back in 2002…

 

 

Got other Arts Origins of non-arts celebrities?  Comment below…

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Video: “Tweet This” – teaser intro

A brief clip of the start of our “Tweet This?” event back in January at Central Square Theater:

 

 

More to come soon as we edit…

We also have video of the event on Livestream, but the quality isn’t quite up to par:
 

 

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Video: BU Inspire talk

My talk at BU Inspire back in October – “Eat Lunch (And other innovations arts organizations can steal from Google)”.

 

 

They’re doing a new event in April, this one on “Rethinking the End.”  We’re thinking of pitching a topic for this.  Stay tuned or comment below with your own ideas…

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