Neat Ways I've Personally Experienced Tech in the Arts Recently

I went to go see Alvin Ailey perform at the Kennedy Center the evening of February 5th. I love this organization, and have been trying to see them for YEARS. Flipping through my program during one of the intermissions (there were two), I saw that after each piece, there were prompts to send a code via text to a number given to get a free (sans any data fees your carrier would charge you) text with links and more info about the history of the piece and the music being played, and how it fits into the Alvin Ailey repertoire. I thought that was pretty neat, since dance can sometimes seems obscure or difficult to understand unless you are a true enthusiast.

http://www.alvinailey.org/
Also, according to the Express paper today, the New York Philharmonic has started project that will put over 8 million pages of its archives (dating as far back as 1842) online over the course of several years. the first documents to go up were 300K pages from Leonard Bernstein. Included will be scores, programs, business records, and other historic documents. the process is being financed via a 2.4M grant from the Leon Levy Foundation.

This is a link to the press conference that was web cast discussing the project:
http://nyphil.org/concertsTicks/webcast.cfm?utm_medium=homepage&utm_source=button2_webcast_0207

(T.White)