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Listen : Cecilia Bartoli Just Became the First Woman to Perform in the Sistine Chapel - WQXR Blog - WQXR
▻http://www.wqxr.org/story/listen-cecilia-bartoli-just-became-first-woman-perform-sistine-chapel

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjGbNwFlCw

The Vatican’s Sistine Chapel opened in 1483, and over the past few centuries it has seen quite a lot: Michelangelo painting its ceiling, dozens of papal conclaves and a teenage Mozart taking in the majesty Allegri’s Miserere (to illegally transcribe it later). But one thing it hasn’t seen — or rather, heard — in its over 500-year history, is a woman singing.

That changed on Friday night, The Guardian reports, when mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joined the all-male Sistine Chapel Choir in its namesake place of worship. Together, they sang Perotin’s “Beata Viscera.” The selection was part of a larger project — an exploration of underperformed ancient and Renaissance music from the church’s archives.
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Even though Bartoli broke this particular barrier, her performance is a sign of all the work that still needs to be done. In an interview with Italian Newspaper Corriere della Sera, Bartoli pointed out “there is still so much to do” when it comes to correcting the gender imbalance in orchestras.

Occasion d’un bon coup de pub pour DGG…

How Awe Makes Us Generous
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-awe-makes-us-generous

What do the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel, and gazing at distant stars all have in common?

They can awaken a deep appreciation for the world around us and inspire a profound sense of awe. This...

Why Getting It Wrong Is the Future of Design | WIRED
▻http://www.wired.com/2014/09/wrong-theory

Degas was engaged in a strategy that has shown up periodically for centuries across every artistic and creative field. Think of it as one step in a cycle: In the early stages, practitioners dedicate themselves to inventing and improving the rules—how to craft the most pleasing chord progression, the perfectly proportioned building, the most precisely rendered amalgamation of rhyme and meter. Over time, those rules become laws, and artists and designers dedicate themselves to excelling within these agreed-upon parameters, creating work of unparalleled refinement and sophistication—the Pantheon, the Sistine Chapel, the Goldberg Variations. But once a certain maturity has been reached, someone comes along who decides to take a different route. Instead of trying to create an ever more polished and perfect artifact, this rebel actively seeks out imperfection—sticking a pole in the middle of his painting, intentionally adding grungy feedback to a guitar solo, deliberately photographing unpleasant subjects. Eventually some of these creative breakthroughs end up becoming the foundation of a new set of aesthetic rules, and the cycle begins again.

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