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Pushed by County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., a Democrat, the New Opportunities for Tourism and Entertainment — or NOTE — Act would enable restaurants, bars and other businesses to hold live musical entertainment by amending zoning...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from ArtsJournal
How completely has streaming transformed the music world? The platform rose from 7% of the U.S. market in 2010 to a whopping 83% by the end of 2020 — and recorded-music revenues saw their fifth consecutive year of growth, topping $12.2...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from ArtsJournal
The idea that the world’s two most powerful countries can simply “decouple” as their strategic competition grows fiercer — a concept promoted by China hawks — doesn’t match reality. In the case of classical music, as Beethoven in Beijing...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Classical Voice North America
PERSPECTIVE – At the session hosted by the Music Critics Assocation of North America, panelists cited Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and other social issues among factors likely to change the way opera presenters think post-pandemic. The...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from ArtsJournal
In something of a miracle, the huge fire that ravaged the Paris landmark on April 15, 2019 did almost no serious damage to the 8,000-pipe Grand Organ; the major problem is that lead dust from the melted roof covered and coated every part...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from ArtsJournal
Markus Buehler’s team used laser imaging to create a 3D map of webs made by tropical tent-web spiders (Cyrtophora citricola). They identified each thread’s vibrating frequency through its size and elasticity, then converted those...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from ArtsJournal
Soprano Carolyn Sampson summarizes the texts of the eight songs in the cycle thus: “1. I can’t think of anything but him; 2. He’s wonderful and I am not worthy; 3. OMG – he said he loved me; 4. I am his and have the...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from ArtsJournal
Univision, the largest producer of Spanish-language in the United States, and Televisa, Mexico’s largest media conglomerate (and one of the world’s biggest single producers of broadcast material in any language) will combine...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Music and Vision
Geoff Pearce listens to Lieder by Swiss composers Hans Schaeuble, Frank Martin, Peter Mieg, Othmar Schoeck and Arthur Honegger. '... one of the loveliest discs I have ever heard.'Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
Edinburgh International Festival to take place 7 – 29 August 2021 Live performances to be staged in bespoke outdoor pavilions in iconic locations across Scotland’s capital, including Edinburgh Park and the University of...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Once a death sentence, AIDS is thankfully now a condition that can be managed, and while the fear of this.. The post The World Was Once All Miracle: Raymond Yiu Preserves LGBTQ+ History appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Today’s guest post has been penned by Julian Lloyd Webber, who turns 70 today. A musician needing no introduction, I am honoured to feature Julian’s work here on my blog. This renowned ‘cellist has also become a beacon...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Unerhört - Richard Strauss; Daniel Behle, Oliver Schnyder; Prospero Classical Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 April 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A recital which takes us down some rewarding byways in Richard Strauss' song output This...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Adaptistration
We live in interesting times which means we get to see a lot of interesting things. Case in point, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced an event on April 30 and May 1 that will not only include members of the Metropolitan Opera...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The Long Gallery, Castle Howard (Photo Heikki Immonen via Wikipedia ) The Ryedale Festival is 40 this year and there will be celebratory festival in the Summer (16 July-1 August 2021), but to get us in the mood there is an on-line Spring...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Classics Today
This first CD reissue of Jörg Demus’ 1958 Schubert Impromptus, Moments musicaux, and Klavierstücke reminded me that I once owned these long-out-of-print Deutsche Grammophon recordings on scratchy old American Decca LPs. They sound...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Music Genre: Classical
The versatile, eclectic multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson has taken stock of her life's work, pursuing reissues and retrospectives while always forging ahead.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
Royal Opera House announces packed schedule for Spring and Summer The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce more details of its packed schedule of in-person and streamed Spring and Summer performances, with public booking opening on...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from ArtsJournal
“A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression — can be combined with elements of visual vernacular, a...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from ArtsJournal
In its own buttoned-up New England way, it was a modernist hotbed. Each of those institutions was like a little fief, with eminent composers on the faculty. Each maintained active student ensembles, including many devoted exclusively to...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from ArtsJournal
The Italian maestro, who is also chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony and is now winding up his term as music director of the Zurich Opera House, has been named chief conductor of the NHK Symphony, widely considered to be...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Music and Vision
The opera 'Dardanus' impresses Gerald Fenech. 'György Vashegyi paces his forces with meticulous mastery, and his thorough knowledge of the score enables him to bring to the listener all the felicitous nuances of this imaginative...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Classical music | The Guardian
Organisers hope outdoor pavilions and shorter performances will make event ‘relatively bulletproof’ Edinburgh international festival will take place this summer, but will be outdoors for the first time in its 74-year-old history....Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Classical music | The Guardian
Schumann’s song cycle seems to have little to say about the realities of a woman’s life, but its emotional depths and the music’s sheer beauty still touch us. Carolyn Sampson explains how her new recording gives its passive heroine a...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Chinese-American yangqin player Reylon Yount, currently residing in London, combines performance with songwriting, improvisation and diverse academic interests. With Alex.. The post 5 Questions to Reylon Yount (yangqin player, Tangram...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Legendary percussionist James Blades' Percussion Instruments and their History was first published in 1971 (with an introduction from Benjamin Britten with whom Blades had a long association) and last updated in 2005. The book has...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
St Paul's Church, Winchester Like many smaller festivals this year, the Winchester Chamber Music Festival is having to be creative. The festival will go ahead live in Winchester from 4 to 6 June 2021 and these performances will be filmed...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Manchester Song Festival - Ruth Gibson, Kathryn Stott, Katherine Broderick (image taken from live stream) Manchester Song Festival; Kathryn Rudge, Jonathan Fisher, RNCM Songsters, Katherine Broderick, Kathryn Stott, Ruth Gibson; Stoller...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Adaptistration
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I ended up where I needed to be.” That’s one of my favorite lines from Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently series and it’s a perfect way to describe my conversation...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
This album showcases the talents of flautist Dinah Pounds accompanied by her husband – the composer and guitarist, Adam. In these pieces the guitar acts as the continuo providing the bass line and chordal progressions for the music. It...Monday, April 12, 2021 from ArtsJournal
Senior figures from Spotify, Apple and other streaming services have commended the virtues of streaming, and few in the world of music would dispute that the platforms saved the music industry. Music streaming in the UK now brings in...Monday, April 12, 2021 from ArtsJournal
“Someone on our team said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if we could bring together musicians around the U.S. who are not working, for some project?’ It morphed into involving Fabio Luisi, who’s been really bummed out about the Met, which has had...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Classical Voice North America
PORTLAND, Ore. – Whether singing, writing music, or giving artistic advice, bass-baritone Damien Geter has been one busy fellow despite the pandemic. His opera American Apollo debuts May 1 at the Washington National Opera. The post He’s...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
The Noise of Time. The New Yorker, April 19, 2021.Monday, April 12, 2021 from ArtsJournal
Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: “It’s been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing with each other.” But it hasn’t been all terrible. “When the pandemic started,...Monday, April 12, 2021 from ArtsJournal
And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: “In the beginning I just wanted to have these duos written. Then I decided, you know, part of the reason...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Classical music | The Guardian
Streamed from the Royal Opera House A young team bring Weill and Brecht’s satires bang up to date in this double bill exploring social media, binge eating and the crises of femininity and masculinity “Show me the way to the next whisky...Monday, April 12, 2021 from ArtsJournal
Though the bowl will be limited to 4,000 in a venue that seats 17,500, the excitement is real. “The organization is still ramping up to tackle the complexities of reopening, but Smith said the L.A. Phil is planning 45 to 60...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Music and Vision
Giuseppe Pennisi takes a critical look at two April 2021 performances of Verdi's 'La Traviata'Monday, April 12, 2021 from Classics Today
It’s about time that Dvořák’s fascinating and gripping Fourth Quartet got some individual attention apart from big boxes of the chamber works. A single movement over thirty minutes long, in three extended sections, the music...Monday, April 12, 2021 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
A few y years ago, Anne Ozorio,who died last August, gave me a typwscript copy of an article she had written on the experiences, after the 1941 Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong, of some of the Portuguese/Macanese (many of...Monday, April 12, 2021 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
As the hardships caused by the global pandemic and uprisings in protest of police brutality and systemic racism have become.. The post String Noise Amplifies Black Narratives on Genre-Crossing Alien Stories appeared first on I CARE IF...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Classical music | The Guardian
Live-streamed from the Barbican, London This immaculately filmed recital re-launched the Barbican’s live music series, with a programme of Liszt, Chopin and Ravel showcasing Grosvenor’s technical brilliance The Barbican has resumed its...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Stuart Laing, Kristy Swift & ensemble - Beethoven's 1804 Leonore at the Buxton Festival , 2016 (photo Robert Workman) Whilst it might seem a piece of 19th century Romanticism, the ideal of a composer straining to create the perfect...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival at Cockpit Theatre in 2020, with a real live audience (Photo Claire Shovelton) During 2020, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival was one of the first companies to mount an in-door performance again, and...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Rachel Nicholls as Leonore in Opera North’s Autumn 2020 production of Beethoven’s Fidelio (Photo Richard H Smith) Opera North has announced its first live performances since 2020 with a programme which moves from Beethoven to Sondheim to...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Adaptistration
I’m all for finding ways to infuse wine into the live concert experience. But while my own interest tends to start and stop at the actual consumption, others are giving the subject it the attention it deserves. Case in point,...Monday, April 12, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
San Andreas transform fault on the Carrizo Plain The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s annual festival of new and experimental music returns next month (8 & 9 May 2021) with a line-up featuring many of the artists scheduled for 2020....Monday, April 12, 2021 from Classics Today
J.S. Bach bookended his Clavier-Übung III (the German Organ Mass) with his so-called “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, putting the Prelude at the beginning and the Fugue at the end. Francesco Piemontesi does the same thing here,...Sunday, April 11, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Michael Papadopoulos (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, Covent...