"The move ... is scheduled to coincide with both the end of Thomas' 25th season at the organization's helm [in the summer of 2020] and his 75th birthday in December 2019. He will remain with the Symphony in the newly created post of music director laureate, conducting at least four weeks each year and undertaking a variety of special programming projects."
"Almost my entire adult life I've been the music director of some organization or another. I have volumes and volumes of almost-completed compositions and stories and poems and collections and all sorts of things. For years I've been thinking that if I'm going to be able to devote time to making sure that these things are in good shape before I'm outta here, this would be a kind of good moment to think about doing that."
An exciting career opportunity is available at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for a Director of Financial and Administrative Operations at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The successful candidate will provide both long-term leadership and immediate management guidance and oversight to the development and management of the Hopkins Center for the Arts business activity.
Requirements: BA in Accounting or Business Management with five years of experience in financial/business planning and human resources management in a complex educational, cultural or performing arts center, or the equivalent in relevant experience and education.
For a detailed description of the key responsibilities and requirements and to apply for this position, go to http://ift.tt/2ijcgei and refer to position #1125818.
Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a strong commitment to diversity. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of people, including women and minorities.
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The Senior Director of Advancement serves as the principal leader for the College of Fine Arts’ Development area, establishing fundraising strategies and goals, supervising the College’s four-person Development staff, and soliciting major gifts for the College. Duties for this position include directing the College’s comprehensive capital campaign as well as overseeing planned and annual giving, corporate and foundation fundraising, major gifts, and Development research.
The incumbent will support the University of Utah’s goals and mission and act as a catalyst among departments, faculty, staff, students, and external entities to ensure continuity and quality of philanthropic efforts in the CFA. This position works closely with, and reports to, the Dean of the College of Fine Arts and will coordinate Development efforts with Arts Professional Affiliates on campus.
University of Utah Job ID# PRN15602B, College of Fine Arts – Dean’s Office
COMPENSATION: Commensurate with Experience. Strong benefit package including tuition reduction program, retirement and health plan options.
WORK SCHEDULE: Full-time, 40 hours/week.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategically organizes, directs, and oversees all Development efforts for the College of Fine Arts:
External Relations
Circle of Giving donors and cultivation of alumni. Serves on extended University of Utah Alumni Board.
Management & Leadership
QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, the arts, Communication or related area, or equivalency; eight years of progressively more responsible management experience; and demonstrated leadership, human relations and effective communications skills required. Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.
PREFERENCES:
Our ideal candidate will have:
PLEASE APPLY ONLINE THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SYSTEM TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION:
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Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2017.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
The University of Utah is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities. Please contact the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, 201 S. Presidents Cr., Rm 135, (801) 581-8365 (V/TDD), for further information or to request an accommodation. The University of Utah is committed to diversity in its workforce. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
"For one thing, it goes to small places other than Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in the country, where people are underserved in terms of having access to the work of Canadian artists. It is also a gathering place where everyone from students to audiences to artists can come together to meet and talk; and it is also a showcase for Canadian artists who don't have a lot of platforms for their work. There are more now – but an opportunity for presenters to see a lot of Canadian work in one place in a short period of time is very important."
The oddest finding may be the sharp increase in an innocuous little word: “and.” In 1946, “and” accounted for around 2.6 percent of the words in the reports, a frequency similar to that of average academic prose. But by 2015, as this chart shows, its share had almost doubled, reflecting what the researchers describe as the growing tendency toward long lists of nouns that create the illusion of activity, sometimes despite a “total absence of logic.”
Literary criticism typically tends to emphasize the singularity of exceptional works that have stood the test of time. But the canon, Franco Moretti argues, is a distorted sample. Instead, he says, scholars need to consider the tens of thousands of books that have been forgotten, a task that computer algorithms and enormous digitized databases have now made possible. “We know how to read texts,” he wrote in a much-quoted essay included in his book “Distant Reading,” which won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. “Now let’s learn how to not read them.”
Founded as an arts school in 1936, LaGuardia was immortalized in the 1980 film “Fame.” Alumni include a galaxy of stars such as Liza Minnelli, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Vanessa Williams and Jennifer Aniston, along with top artists, composers and musicians.
These companies tap into our emotional longing for simpler times; even Socrates yearned for the days before this new-fangled technology called “reading” ruined everything (paywall). Never content with the cards we’ve been dealt, we keep on turning old ones over, wanting to escape into their familiar embrace.
"Perhaps a man possessed of an ego the size of a hot-air balloon could only subsist within a myth. To keep himself airborne required so much huffing and puffing that inevitably he ran out of breath. He was jealous, insecure, treacherous to his friends, and merciless toward his promoters—no good turn, no matter how good it was, went unpunished—and although he overestimated his talent, he also largely wasted it, which was precisely the charge he had laid against his old pal F. Scott Fitzgerald, who, with The Great Gatsby, surely did write if not the then at least agreat American novel."
"While I never intended to become The Angriest Librarian, a lifelong inability to hold my tongue—and my frustration with the permeating stereotypes of 1950s-era public libraries—seems to have made it inevitable. So, when I was confronted with yet another blowhard who couldn’t see the value his tax dollars were placing right in front of his face, I had no choice. Over the next few days, I picked up 15,000 followers and found myself in a position to become a public face for my besieged profession."
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film” — in...
