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I had never really read him . . . a few tales here and there, the novel 'Enemies' . . . until I opened a volume of his 'Collected Short Stories' not long ago. It has kept me riveted.

Charlie Ortiz, Founder & Executive Director of the WHIN Music Community Charter School, shares the ethos and best practices of building sustainable partnerships.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PocpiBx3hfk&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent The “New World” Symphony visual presentation created by Peter Bogdanoff for the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s 1994 Dvorak festival. Building on

When you look across the culture at what is gaining traction, some common themes emerge.

Sidney Jackson, President & CEO of Chicago Sinfonietta, talks about their unique role and impact regionally and nationally.

Mahler’s composing hut on the Attersee One of my more popular blogs – it still gets lots of hits

When you're a young composer, perhaps your most difficult problem is not just learning your craft but getting your music played. To solve that problem two Bard College undergrads — Dylan Mattingly and David Blum — put together a band of fellow Bard musicians. Sixteen years later that band still thrives, performing the works of many contemporary composers. And Mattingly's own music has since been commissioned and presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Ojai Music Festival, among others. Last week he made his debut on Nonesuch Records with the release of 'The Wild Heart.'

The conductor Ettore Panizza. Credit:.The New York Times The New York Times invited me to attempt a succinct assessment

We're now focused on "doping tests" to determine if artists have cheated. Rather than pee in a bottle, however, we're depending on AI detector tools and documentary proof of human creation. Did the Foundation double down to ask what's the best writing? No. They cared more about how it was made. Perhaps that's important. Of course it is. But, in a way, it's now an impossible question. Moreover, it may ultimately be the wrong question.

We know from our research that people love the arts. All kinds of people. Pretty much everyone—provided we talk about it in a way they recognize. I was reminded of this over the weekend when the news came of Simon Leis passing. There are a lot of creative touchpoints to his story. If you aren’t

Brent Ott, Chief Operating Officer of The Henry Ford, talks about their historic exhibits and programming celebrating America 250.

Visiting Zurich earlier this week, I was eager to sample the Zurich Opera in Wagner. They are bringing the Ring to Carnegie

Senar Switzerland’s idyllic Lake Lucerne, bounded by majestic mountains, was famously the site of two composer’s homes. Sergei Rachmaninoff built

Corie Benton, President-Elect of the American String Teachers Association, shares the critical role of diverse voices in music training.

The major disconnect of contemporary culture: Findability has detached from the ability of traditional cultural narratives to agree on what's important. Instead of art evolving in coherent strands that are traceable and linear, there are now multiple cultural universes, each with their own languages and conventions. Each has its own creative masters, famous within that universe. But from the outside, these adjacent universes are all but invisible and their languages opaque.