戏还得上线照演:艺术界移师互联网直播及其他

The Show Must Go On(line):The arts turn to streaming,live and otherwise

坦白地说,上个月的专栏题目令人沮丧。随着中国的各大文艺院团关门抗击疫情,全球各大歌剧院与音乐厅也因新冠肺炎疫情告急而颁布了大型公众集会的禁令,纷纷关上了大门。众多院团借鉴了中国同行的做法,利用互联网与观众保持联系。在这些天里,因为疫情世界的局势瞬息万变。因此我猜测,上个月在专栏里所提及的内容,到了今天也许就过时了。但让我意料不到的是,那些我刚写好的文章在送至印刷厂期间,本来新鲜的事件就已经变成了旧闻。

Frankly,l a st month’s column wa s a l i ttle depressing.Following China’s lead,the world’s great opera houses,theatres and concert halls began closing one by one as COVID-19 took its toll on public gatherings.And also following China’s lead,many of those same institutions had already started reaching out to their audiences by way of the internet.Things move pretty fast these days,so I figured that anything I wrote last month would probably ancient history by now.What I didn’t expect was that it would already be outdated by the time it appeared in print.