News: Orchestra salaries, a beloved mime, document for sale, all the world's a...subway map?
An interesting look at the salaries of big orchestras shows a trend of divergence, according to Drew McManus of ArtsJournal. In several complicated charts, Mr McManus demonstrates how orchestra salaries were in the same range between 1999 and 2002 but then shot in different directions after 2003. Los Angeles and Boston dominate the top tier; Chicago, New York and Philadelphia create the second tier, and Cleveland trails far behind. Meanwhile, the New York Philharmonic and the musicians' union have reached an agreement to raise minimum salaries to $140,400 by the 2011-2012 season.
Marcel Marceau, a famed mime, was buried yesterday in Paris. 300 mourners came for his burial at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, which also serves as the resting place of Marcel Proust, Georges Bizet and Molière. Marceau, a French Jew born Marcel Mangel, died on Saturday at age 84 after a long life that included narrowly escaping deportation to a Nazi death camp and working for the French Resistance. He is most famous for creating the pale-faced character of Bip.
The Magna Carta will be auctioned in December by Sotheby's, where it is expected to garner $30m. The original document, forcibly signed by King John in 1215, established that no one, including the king, was above the law. It is regarded as having set the model for constitutional democracies. The Sotheby's copy, containing the seal of King Edward I in 1297, has been on display since 1984 in Washington, DC. The only one in the world in private hands, it is being sold by the Perot Foundation to raise money for "medical research, improving public education and assisting wounded soldiers and their families."
The Royal Shakespeare Company has commissioned a tube map of Shakespeare's characters, with lines such as "The Fools" and "The Fathers and Daughters".
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