There are plenty of factors, and these people are oh so proud of them all (despite the fact that one of them is subtlety). And there's an explanation of what exactly they do with the waltz rhythm that nobody else gets quite right. - Euronews
It's really "the near-total inability of post-World War II America and Europe to produce more than a small number of classical works that any normal person would want to hear. That failure is slowly killing classical music." - Wall Street Journal
"We have seen so many screaming girls. Every time we see them, we’re like, 'They’re screaming.' And that’s it. Yet the screaming fan doesn’t scream for nothing and screaming isn’t all the fan is doing. It never has been." - The Guardian (UK)
More than one million subscriptions to Apple, Spotify, and other services have been cancelled - with a large percentage of people saying that's to save money. It's suddenly a nervy time to be in streaming. - BBC
"At the pop-up concert outside the cafe, wind threatened to blow sheet music away, and buses pulled in and out of the nearby terminal, but that didn’t deter the nearly 100 people who gathered to listen." - MSN (Boston Globe)
The competition was overshadowed by Russia's attacks on Ukraine; silver medal winner Anna Geniushene fled Russia for Lithuania and has been critical of the war, and bronze medalist Dmytro Choni is from Ukraine. Yunchan Lim, who won gold, is the youngest winner ever, at 18. - The New York Times
Though the Ukrainian entry won the 2022 version of the competition, the war makes Ukraine as a host impossible, according to the European Broadcast Corporation - which is now looking to Britain, home of this year's runner-up. - The New York Times
On April 6 1980, Post-it Notes as we know them hit the shelves, and a year later they were also launched in Canada and Europe. That same year, 3M named the Post-it its Outstanding New Product, and awarded the development team the ‘Golden Step Award’ in both 1980 and 1981. - ClassicFM
In comments to TPR, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the symphony's former music director, blasted the board's move as a scorched-earth solution. The maestro has led a behind-the-scenes effort to convince city and county leaders to help fund the organization and end the labor impasse. - San Antonio Current
Most works of art don’t yield their secrets all at once. It takes time, and repeated exposure, before listeners have a good sense of what rewards are available in a particular creation. But that entails a level of financial and institutional overhead unlike that of any other art form. - San Francisco Chronicle
Gary Ginstling, currently executive director of the National Symphony at DC's Kennedy Center, will assume the title of executive director this fall and move fully into Borda's position, president and chief executive, as of next July. Borda, now 72, will remain available as a consultant. - The New York Times
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy. (The board last declared bankruptcy in 2003, and the orchestra has struggled financially ever since resuming operations in 2004-05.) - Texas Public Radio
The violin, made in 1714 by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari, belonged to virtuoso Toscha Seidel, who not only used it on the score for the 1939 "Wizard of Oz" Hollywood classic, but also no doubt while teaching his famous student Albert Einstein. - Yahoo!
