"Unlike the symphony, it's a young institution. Unlike the symphony, it has diversity and inclusiveness deep in its DNA. ... Its performing artists hail from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, ... and (its) board of directors is relatively young and decidedly diverse, too." - MSN (San Antonio Express-News)
The Pittsburgh Symphony was looking to buy a new Steinway concert grand for its concerto soloists. The price: $198,000. Fortunately, Emanuel Ax was there to play a concerto that week, so he was able to help music director Manfred Honeck and others make the decision. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Compositions by women and people of color now make up about 23 percent of the pieces performed by orchestras, up from only about 5 percent in 2015, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Institute for Composer Diversity at SUNY-Fredonia." - The New York Times
It was unusual for a K-pop group to start from a base of rap and hip-hop. It was even more unusual for a group to speak and sing openly of the struggles of youth. - The New Yorker
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
