While COVID-19 was a box office disaster for every opera company, large or small, it did have an upside, said Mould. ‘COVID exposed and amplified what the hidden issues are in the system. - ArtsHub
"I always used to say that I observed this formalism to protect the music against the bad taste of the composer. And I still stand by that, but maybe the composer's taste isn't quite as bad as it used to be, because he's lived in this musical world for so long." - Van
If there's a cinema anywhere near you that shows them, you're out of luck. Streamed broadcasts will only be available in countries (and areas of North America) where the cinemacasts are not. - AP
What harm is done by letting conductors into our chamber music? More than you’d suspect. Collaborative pianists — we only recently stopped calling them “accompanists” — have struggled to acquire a modicum of dignity for their vocation. - The Critic
Musicologist Lily Hersh says that "people are still surprised that music can be used in negative ways: they think music is supposed to be sublime and uplifting ... but music can just as easily be destructive. That destructiveness is not something to cover up or shy away from." - Culture Study
Pettiford claimed, "Basically I’m a bass player. For kicks I play cello, for thought I play piano, and for odd moments I beat on the drums." His style would be "familiar to any modern ear, ... propelling the rhythm section to the front of the sound." - Sahan Journal
Latinx composers made Hollywood's scores, songs, and sounds, starting a century ago. Maria Grever "had studied with French composer Claude Debussy before returning to her native Mexico where she wrote boleros. ... Then, Grever composed songs for movies." - NPR
The trial is about "claims he copied his hit 2014 song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, after a federal judge rejected the pop star’s efforts to toss out the long-running copyright case." - The Guardian (UK)
Teodor Currentzis, who has ties to a Russian state-owned bank and has been criticized for it, will step down when his contract ends - in 2025, announced Stuttgart's SWR Symphony. - The New York Times
Tom Port believes that records are like snowflakes — no two are the same. So many things can impact the pressing, including room temperature, the split second the stampers are pressed onto the hot, vinyl biscuit, and unknown factors no human can understand. - Washington Post
References to Apple Classical in code were previously found in a beta version of iOS 15.5, and an Android version of Apple Music. The evidence isn’t conclusive, of course, and may be laying the groundwork for another future version of iOS. - Ludwig Van
"We do not know how many Black people are in orchestras. And I say that as a representative of Black Orchestral Network. One of our calls is, let's start collecting data. Let's find out, have we done better than the 1.4% number that is going out there?" - NPR
The season total represented a decline of 7 percent compared to 2019, when 311,596 patrons attended 248 performances. Because there were 44 fewer events this past summer than three years ago, individual concert attendance increased 12 percent from the summer of 2019. - Berkshire Eagle
Not long ago, piano factories like this were one of America’s largest and most formidable industries, employing tens of thousands of workers. Today, only two remain: Steinway & Sons in New York, and this place — Mason & Hamlin. - The Hustle
She ran the orchestra in the 1990s, and left partly because she saw no real will to fix the Phil's long-problematic venue. After 17 triumphant years running the Los Angeles Philharmonic, she returned when the will and the money to rebuild the auditorium were finally there. - The New York Times
