“Every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic. Met management is using the pandemic opportunistically. They are not seeking a short-term crisis-plan to balance out pandemic circumstances. They are seeking permanent cuts. The cuts they seek are so deep that the orchestra would need unrealistic salary gains over the next quarter-century just to...
Is it too little, too late? "Unlike other business sectors that have been hit hard by the coronavirus, performance centres are in a uniquely challenged position due to thin profit margins that rely on large audiences." - BBC
The anthem - which replaced "God Save the Queen" only in 1984, though it had been written in the late 19th century - previously had a tweak from "Australia's sons" to "Australians all," and now it's from "young and free" to "one and free" - including the peoples who have been on the continent for 60,000 years. - The...
Tyshawn Sorey has had numerous - as in, numerous - premieres and commissions this year. The composer, who straddles jazz and classical, "has been on everyone’s radar at least since winning a MacArthur 'genius' grant in 2017, but the shock to the performing arts since late winter brought him suddenly to the fore as an artist at the nexus of...
