Kennedy Center

[essentialsaltes]

This story was conflusing…it seems to suggested that the DJT-JFK Center needed more money from the WNO and the WNO demurred. I is close?

I think the reality is that opera is not super popular yet it's expensive to produce. So if opera weren't supported by wealthy donors, it wouldn't happen at all. I don't know how that translates to the deals between the opera company and the venue, but it wouldn't surprise me if the government was [clutching pearls] supporting the arts financially, and opera may be more expensive than a case of Bud Light for Kid Rock.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

a case of Bud Light for Kid Rock.

Hoo boy! Now, that's some good watching.

 

[Desk trauma]

Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center​

In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Trump’s remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera’s board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. [when the Kennedy Center opened]

“Today, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with the Kennedy Center and resume operations as a fully independent nonprofit entity,” the company said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Kennedy Center President Ambassador Richard Grenell tweeted that the call was made by the Kennedy Center, writing that its leadership had “approached the Opera leadership last year with this idea and they began to be open to it.”

“Having an exclusive relationship has been extremely expensive and limiting in choice and variety,” Grenell wrote. “We have spent millions of dollars to support the Washington Opera’s exclusivity and yet they were still millions of dollars in the hole - and getting worse.”

The notes were sour anyway.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The notes were sour anyway.

I guess the fat lady sang.

 

[durangodawood]

Tickets for Don Jr Giovanni werent selling anyway.

 

[Pommer]

Hoo boy! Now, that's some good watching.

I have been known to kill a few beers, but I’m a piker compared to the Kid.

 

[essentialsaltes]

 

[Aryeh Jay]

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Well now there's a slot for the Kid Rock / Ted Nugent duet that everyone is talking about.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Kennedy Center official resigns less than two weeks after hiring​

Kevin Couch says he ‘resigned yesterday’, amid recent turmoil following a leadership overhaul initiated by Trump

The newly appointed senior vice-president of artistic programming at Washington DC’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kevin Couch, has resigned less than two weeks after his hiring was announced.

Couch confirmed he “resigned yesterday” in a statement to the Guardian on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Couch, who recently served as director of programming for ATG Entertainment and is the founder of the Dallas-based branding agency CBC creative, confirmed to the Washington Post and the New York Times that he left the position. He declined to give a reason for his resignation.

 

[essentialsaltes]

You thought running casinos into the ground was difficult. Try destroying the nation's premier performing arts center sometime.

 

[Tuur]

Feh. Name it after Mary Jo Kopechne and be done with it.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The Donald J. Trump Center of MAGA Arts.

 

[durangodawood]

Well now there's a slot for the Kid Rock / Ted Nugent duet that everyone is talking about.

Maybe they can compose a minimalist symphony to make up for the loss of Phillip Glass?

Like take the first 4 notes of "Sweet Home Alabama" and loop them for 30 min. Then layer in some gunfire sounds, and so on.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Maybe they can compose a minimalist symphony to make up for the loss of Phillip Glass?

Like take the first 4 notes of "Sweet Home Alabama" and loop them for 30 min. Then layer in some gunfire sounds, and so on.

Man, you had me at the first four notes!
That's a Grammy for sure.

 

[durangodawood]

Man, you had me at the first four notes!
That's a Grammy for sure.

Interestingly, I met the guy who (along with his son) made the grammys, like the cast the metal and cut the wood base etc. He came to one of our shows in a little mountain town once. He neglected to offer us a grammy tho.

 

[essentialsaltes]

You thought running casinos into the ground was difficult. Try destroying the nation's premier performing arts center sometime.

Told y'all.

The new one will be 1,776 feet tall.