“Glimmerglass Opera, the 35-year-old summer opera festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., has named Francesca Zambello as its general and artistic manager.” The well-known and well-traveled director “will likely give the small company, which presents four operas a season, a higher profile.” Wall Street Journal 03/11/10

Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novel about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII won the fiction award, with Richard Holmes earning the nonfiction prize for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. . Joyce Carol Oates accepted an award for lifetime achievement. Wall Street Journal 03/12/10

“In a zig-zagging departure from the one-person-steers-the-ship movie making standard, Untitled Comedy is being shot by half a dozen different filmmakers.

The recordings, under OSM music director Kent Nagano, are of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (on Sony) and Unsuk Chin’s Violin Concerto (on the Montreal-based label Analekta); both use German soloists. Says a Juno spokesman, “We understand that the OSM is Canadian. But it was in the Soloist with Large Ensemble Accompaniment (category), so the focus is on the soloist. And the soloist, not being Canadian, can’t qualify.” Montreal Gazette 03/11/10

An original framed photograph of the anti-slavery activist, a silk-and-linen shawl given to her by Queen Victoria, and her own personal hymnal are “among an extraordinary trove of Tubman artifacts given Wednesday to the National Museum of African American History and Culture by esteemed collector and author Charles L. Blockson.” Washington Post 03/11/10