![]() Virtual events are arguably better for the authors, who can give several readings or talks in a week without getting on a plane. ![]() One type of event that hasn’t suffered much from the switch from in-person to streaming is the book launch or author talk. To the virtual museum and gallery tours that took us behind closed doors. Kudos to the Guthrie’s “Dickens’ Holiday Classic,” to Northrop’s dance films, to the Minnesota Orchestra’s livestreamed concerts, and the SPCO’s, and Minnesota Opera’s “Albert Herring,” and the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, whose weekly Jazz Fest Live broadcasts went from amateur to pro. And with COVID raging, there was no place we wanted to go. We desperately missed live and in-person performances, but we saw many examples of streaming as the next best thing to being there. We were witnesses to the evolution of streaming from blurry to crisp visuals, muddy to clear sound, better lighting, more camera angles and lower latency (the delay, or lag, between when something happens in real time and when we see the stream). All the arts and culture that could move to streaming did, sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. Jane SmileySince COVID arrived in early 2020, those of us with internet access have been living in a streaming world.
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