On Thursday night, the Kennedy Center concert hall was awash in nearly a minute of howling, passionate booing. It started with one or two boos and caught on fast, roaring from the rows. I’ve never heard anything quite like it — let alone before a note was played. - Washington Post
A 32-year-old Briton (and a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavsky), Prior became assistant conductor of the Seattle Symphony at age 17 and music director of the Edmonton Symphony at 25. He begins his initial term in Eugene next October. - KLCC (Eugene, OR)
While it’s been clearly demonstrated that plants respond to sound, the evidence about whether they’re affected by music, let alone which genres, is far from definitive. Nevertheless, there’s plenty of music for plants around; several streaming services even offer specially-programmed plant channels. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Like a page turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce. - The New York Times
Streaming’s payment system, devised back when it generated so little money that the difference between 13% and 15% was almost irrelevant, is in dire need of revision. - Variety
“On Thursday, Dudamel and the Philharmonic will give the world premiere of the five-minute piece as part of a program celebrating the 150th birthday of Ravel. … The newly found piece, Sémiramis: Prélude et Danse, was written sometime between 1900 and 1902, when Ravel was in his late 20s.” - The New York Times
Esteban Batallán was lured away from the Chicago Symphony’s famous brass section, and he decided to go back. He describes the reason for his departure from Philadelphia as an artistic difference, but, from what he describes, the issue may have been the extent of his authority. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce.” - The New York Times
Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans co-governed by their unions, use of labor group-administered insurance among recording artists is spottier. - The Hollywood Reporter
"They're going to regret it," Seubert predicted. "Not financially or anything, but just from a historical perspective, the Internet Archive is valuable for all of us." - Ars Technica
is this … is this real? His playlist in honor of Commonwealth Day “features a diverse range of artists across various genres, including Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Minogue, and RAYE.” - NPR
"Both the Juno Awards and the Polaris Music Prize announced Friday they were rescinding the honours Sainte-Marie had received over the years, after the 84-year-old musician returned her Order of Canada earlier this week” since, as it turns out, she was never Canadian. - CBC
Under David Snead’s leadership, the 210-year-old period instrument orchestra’s annual revenue grew by 45 percent. Its endowment has expanded from $13 million to more than $34 million, and its ongoing comprehensive fund-raising campaign recently surpassed $50 million. - Symphony
Brian Katz, an acoustics expert at the Sorbonne, took an extensive acoustical survey of the cathedral in 2015, four years before the fire, and another shortly afterward. He says the sound in the burned church was like at Napoleon's coronation, and he has ideas about how the post-restoration acoustics are different. - BBC
A memo from the United States Department of Education forced the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to pause their Emerging Black Composers project. - KRON4
