Part of the reason people may not be willing to pay as much for eco friendly wine is the mistaken assumption by new buyers that the technology associated with cultivating eco friendly wine is new and relatively untested in the long term. Wine is something that requires a lot of time and patience and if buyers are willing to spend a considerable amount of money in a recession then they are going to make sure they get their money’s worth.
Bron: By: Spencer Mills
By: Spencer Mills
Are Farmers Wealthy Parasites?
That’s a question raised by this excerpt from a farmgate post on ERS research:
” For more than 10 years the median income for farm household has surpassed that of the average US family by a margin of anywhere from 3 to 21%, and farm family wealth has been 4 to 5 times [emphasis added] that of the average US family….”
Of course, my mother would add that farmers are land rich and money poor.
Duchamp: To say the Least
When The Book Tour Is A DIY Affair
“Here’s how it’s supposed to work: T.C. Boyle has published more than 20 books since 1979.
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Emilie is the work of two strong-willed women
“Something definitely needs to be done about the end”, says soprano Karita Mattila in plain Finnish after the last rehearsals of composer Kaija Saariaho’s new opera Emilie at the Opera National de Lyon.
Saariaho agrees, and the famous film and opera director Francois Girard decides to change his direction.
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Virginia Tech international music festival to feature opera, chamber music
The mountains of Blacksburg will come alive with music this summer as luminaries from the opera and chamber music worlds gather to coach and mentor a new generation of superstar performers. The two-week festival — Viva Virginia — starts June 21 and includes concerts, lectures, and master classes open to the public.
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Met premieres Shostakovich’s absurdist ‘The Nose’
Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first opera, “The Nose,” more than 80 years ago and based it on a short story written nearly a century before that.
Yet few works in the repertory seem more modern or musically challenging than this absurdist masterpiece that came to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time Friday night.
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Picture This: A Nose on the Loose
It has become commonplace at the Metropolitan Opera for directors and designers of new productions, especially modernist high-concept ones, to be lustily booed by a sizable contingent of the audience during opening-night ovations.
But on Friday night, when the Met introduced its production of Shostakovich’s early opera “The Nose” based on the Gogol short story, the South African artist William Kentridge, who directed the production, helped design the sets and created the videos that animate the staging, received the heartiest bravos.
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Where Is The Fact Checker For Documentaries?
Over the past quarter-century, the Pew Charitable Trusts “has supported documentary filmmaking to the tune of $26 million. But that was mostly for films of the Ken Burns variety, straightforward educational fare destined, in many cases, for public television.
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How Ireland Supports Culture – Reset Needed
“The situation in Dublin highlights the scale of disarray. We know that around €200 million of taxpayers’ money is spent annually on mainstream cultural services and facilities, including arts, film, heritage, libraries, local authorities, national cultural institutions, and so on.
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