Last month, the City of Dallas, which owns and (for now) operates WRR Classical 101 FM, issued a Request for Proposals from nonprofits to take over management of the money-losing station. Fortunately, both of the top logical candidates are interested. - The Dallas Morning News
Nine cases of COVID have been discovered (so far) among the orchestra's young musicians, who are isolating from everyone else at the site. The opening concert has been reprogrammed for the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, a separate group. - The Violin Channel
Though parts of Summer of Soul were on YouTube for years, most of the recordings languished in a basement. In those decades, white filmmakers made Woodstock an icon. - The Guardian (UK)
They even recorded, while collaborating over Zoom and using other tools, a new album. "This whole record is sort of like poster child of pandemic production." - NPR
Why? "The rough edges of a medium are what allows us to get a grip on it. When I hold a record in my hands, there’s no getting around its physicality, its presence, its here-ness." - Washington Post
More than 40 former employees have contacted the investigating law firm "since allegations of a toxic workplace culture first aired and its Australian chief executive was removed in June." - The Guardian (UK)
Colette Maze was born in 1914, began picking out melodies on the keyboard by age three, released her first CD at 84, and recorded Debussy at age 103. She still practices four hours a day. - Classic FM
Matthew Loden has reportedly decided to leave the role after accepting an offer to serve as Dean at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Huston, Texas. - Ludwig Van
The A.I. Song Contest features three dozen or so teams that use artificial intelligence networks to create parts of, and sometimes all of, a song, along with a jury of scientists and songwriters led by Imogen Heap. And what did they come up with? - The New York Times
Researchers using an array of high-tech methods have found traces of alum, potash, lime, borax, and plain old salt in the wooden fronts of these old instruments — and the cellulose molecules in the spruce were rearranged by those treatments. - The Strad
As superintendent, and with Kirill Petrenko as music director, Nikolaus Bachler made the Bavarian State Opera a beacon of "artistic excellence, destination programming and, during the pandemic, fearless advocacy." He's stepping down this summer, and Joshua Barone has the exit interview. - The New York Times
The City of Dallas owns a classical radio station? Yep. WRR Classical 101 FM, which celebrates its 100th birthday next month, is operated by the municipal Office of Arts and Culture — for now. – Inside Radio
