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Yo-Yo Ma And Kathryn Stott: A 40-Year Musical Partnership Comes To An End

Friends before they started playing together, Ma and Stott met in 1978 in rather unusual circumstances. - The New York Times

African Musicians Sound Off About Using AI In Music

"My problem with AI is the ownership. Once you have taken some music from Ghana or Nigeria, who owns that music? How would you find out where the original creators are and ensure they are credited? It’s theft for me through the backroom." - BBC

Claim: More Music Is Released Now In A Typical Day Than In All Of 1989

In business analyst MiDiA's recent 'State of the music creator economy report', they found that the overall number of music creators was around 75.9 million - a 12 percent increase over the previous year. - Music Radar

Yes, We Can Save Opera In The United States

And everywhere - by making it feel new again. Peter Gelb: “The solution to sustaining opera is through artistic reinvention, both with new operas by living composers, and reimagined productions of classics that can resonate with audiences of today.” - The New York Times

How You Leave The Christian Music Industry Without Losing Your Career

“Gungor still sees a desire for ritual and for communal gathering. He recognizes the power of the collective — and aims to write non-dogmatic music for corporate, if not religious, worship.” - Seattle Times (AP)

The San Francisco Symphony Chorus Renews Its Protests Of Wage Cuts

“The 32 paid choristers, represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, have not received a pay raise in years and their wages have yet to be restored to pre-pandemic levels.” The Symphony wants an 80 percent budget cut - just to the chorus. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

The Playlist That Will Take You A Full Week To Hear

Really, it’s a musical installation, with speakers set up as far from each other as possible in a living room. “The idea is to encourage 'an increased awareness of one’s presence in space — architectural, communal and individual.’” - Washington Post

Charlie Fishman, Music Promoter Who Died This Week, Made DC A Better Jazz Town

Fishman “was sitting in a restaurant in Adams Morgan one night in 2003 with his wife, attorney Stephanie Richards, when they grabbed a napkin and pen to outline his vision for a jazz festival in the nation’s capital.” - Washington Post (MSN)

How Mason Bates Turned Michael Chabon’s Most Famous Novel Into An Opera

He did it without Chabon, for starters: while the author happily gave rights to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, opera is simply "not his thing." So Bates and librettist Gene Scheer set about adapting the Pulitzer-winning novel — and the result will open the Met's season next fall. - AP

New Music Streaming Service Based On Video Games Finds An Audience

It's called Nintendo Music — and on it, you can listen to dozens of hours of music from games like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong. The app has had more than a million downloads since it launched on Oct. 30. - NPR

Can Spotify’s AI-DJs Make You Listen Longer?

Spotify has millions of listeners, and a staff of real human beings couldn't voice contextual recommendations for each one of them. But AI can. - NPR

Festival Attendance Might Be Down, But Glastonbury Sells Out In 30 Minutes

Fans were "randomly assigned a place in a queue" rather than having to refresh the holding page when the tickets went live. - BBC

Metropolitan Opera Names Daniele Rustioni Principal Guest Conductor

The 41-year-old Italian maestro, currently principal conductor at the Opéra national de Lyon in France, will conduct at least two Met productions per season, starting in 2025-26. He will be only the third principal guest conductor in the company's 141-year history, - AP

Pacific Symphony Picks A New Music Director

The 45-year-old Englishman enjoys a substantial social media following; he’s a fan of multidisciplinary performances combining music with other art forms; he’s passionately devoted to developing new audiences through music education, outdoor concerts and community initiatives. - CultureOC

Pitchfork Festival Abruptly Pulls Out Of Chicago

New York–based media giant Condé Nast, which owns Pitchfork Media, the longtime online music criticism website, broke the news on Instagram Monday that the festival would no longer take place in Chicago, where it originated 19 years ago. Condé Nast did not explain the decision. - WBEZ

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