The News Review:
- Review: Ang Lee takes ‘Woodstock’ lightly
- Festival fans receive a flag ban
- Royal pera Bayreuth to release Wagner DVSs
- Fringe Festival fills its boots
Review: Ang Lee takes ‘Woodstock’ lightly
San Jose Mercury News
” Too bad they are scattered throughout a film that lacks focus structure and any sense of just how transformative the weekend music festival was for a generation. Lee’s movie is clearly meant to be a celebration of the Woodstock nation ethos. There isn’t an ounce of cynicism in it and the dark side of this gathering of the tribes is largely glossed over. James Schamus’ screenplay is based — rather loosely — on a book by Elliott Tiber a failed interior designer who in the summer of 1969 retreated to upstate New York to help his Jewish immigrant family save its rundown motel the El Monaco. ne of his ideas: a music and arts festival at the motel (he thinks a string quartet would be nice).
Festival fans receive a flag ban
BBC News
Tall flags have become common in front of stages at many UK festivals. Reading and Leeds boss and Glastonbury operations director Melvin Benn said they were "a nightmare" because they blocked the view for many fans. He said: "The people behind them – not immediately behind them but 20 or 30 rows behind them – can’t see.
Royal pera Bayreuth to release Wagner DVSs
The Associated Press
Bayreuth Festival co-director Katharina Wagner said Tuesday the first recording would be Christoph Marthaler’s production of “Tristan and Isolde” conducted by Peter Schneider at this summer’s festival. It is scheduled for release in November 2009. The production company pus Arte will also release an audio recording of the complete Ring Cycle conducted by Christian Thielemann in 2008. Thielemann’s Die Walkuere will be released in 2010.
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Fringe Festival fills its boots
Edmonton Sun
com%2Fnews%2Fedmonton%2F2009%2F08%2F25%2F10596516-sun. Attendance was sky-high and there were more volunteers than ever for the 28th edition of the 11-day event says a festival official who points to the slumping economy as at least part of the reason. “The (Capital) EX numbers were down. But the Fringe festivals with cheap tickets and free sites are way up” said Julian Mayne executive director of Fringe Theatre Adventures the operator of the Edmonton Fringe. “(The Fringe) is just a pretty reasonable day out. It’s pretty cheap entertainment.