The key aim was to use music to connect young people from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds on both sides of the Irish border. Almost 30 years on, this remains the central goal of the 140-member orchestra. - BBC
The initiative by Opera America, described as a discount exchange for traveling audience members, has 85 participating companies across the US and Canada offering a 10% discount on tickets to subscribers of any other participating company. - Ludwig Van
Falletta has produced 54 recordings for Naxos – a rate of two per year. Two of those BPO recordings, and a third that Falletta recorded with the London Symphony, have won Grammy awards. - Buffalo News
When Claude is asked for lyrics to the song “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, for example, it responds with “a nearly word-for-word copy of those lyrics,” Universal, Concord, and ABKCO said in a filing with a US court in Nashville, Tennessee. - Ars Technica
Why? She had only been on the job for two years. Now, "virtually no member of the staff, faculty, or administration, including those who left during the past two years, would talk on the record about Muhl." - Boston Globe
Her 47-year career came to a close in Berlin last week. For every role, she says, "I ask myself, What do I want to say? What could I be in this role? And then I decide if I should do it, and how I’ll do it." - The New York Times
Two months after a strike authorization vote, the contract ratification means the musicians play on, with a much better deal than management press releases last week would have suggested. - MSN (Philadelphia Inquirer)
First, there’s the fear that an uncaring new ownership might end up sending one of the world’s most vital music libraries down the digital flush hole. Then there’s the concurrent fear that the community surrounding this special ecosystem will erode and go poof. - Washington Post
There’s a volitional component to situational boredom—it inspires a pivot, a consideration of what one deems valuable. To be bored in this way is to desire change. - Van
The highest-profile recent examples have been the Metropolitan Opera productions of Terence Blanchard's Champion and Fire Shut Up in My Bones, but there are more: Rhiannon Giddens's Pulitzer-winning Omar, Anthony Davis's X and The Central Park Five, Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori's Blue, Jake Heggie's Intelligence, … - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
And from its formation in 1976, the Emerson Quartet sounded pretty. It became famous for its rich vitality and easy power in a vast repertory that it recorded prolifically and toured tirelessly. - The New York Times
The event began in 1993 as a three-day symposium in North Carolina: "Gateways: Classical Music and the Black Musician." Now based in Rochester, the event has grown to multiple concerts by a full symphony orchestra as well as chamber groups; 300 musicians take part across four cities. - The New York Times
“This is a plan of managed decline, rather than an attempt to rebuild the company and maintain the world-class artistic output for which ENO is rightly famed." - The Guardian
