Category: music

As the millennium closes where have the paths we have gone down in art led us? The Boston Globe looks at the century of arts.  – Boston Globe
AND: A century tells the story of jazz
     AND: An unpredictable century for classical music
     AND: A roller-coaster century of technology and popular music

Uniformly negative reviews of his North American opera debut won’t dissuade Andrea Bocelli from pursuing his dreams of a career in opera. – Chicago Tribune

Pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode have been named artistic directors of the Marlboro Music Festival. – Chicago Tribune

A few years ago it would have been unthinkable to even consider Benjamin Britten for such a list. Now people are talking… – Toronto Globe and Mail

Daniel Hayes plays piano at the local supermarket near his Maryland home. When he decided to perform on a grander scale he took out a classified ad: “Senior Citizen ready to perform the Rubinstein D-minor piano concerto . . . but needs an orchestra. Can you help?” – Philadelphia Inquirer

From the cases of Budweiser stacked on stage to a flying motorcycle, burned-out van and “loser” cast, critic can’t find a nice word for the “vandals” who defaced Handel in a London Guildhall production. – London Times

By almost any measure, the Chicago Lyric Opera’s world premiere of William Bolcom’s new opera “A View from the Bridge” was a huge success. The question: is it a big enough hit to find a place in the repertoire? – New York Times

New Seagram website encourages musicians worldwide to upload their music to site for critique by label execs and fans. – Variety

Playwrights Wendy Wasserstein, A.R. Gurney and Terrence McNally take on a different kind of theater with a trio of one-act operas themed around Central Park. – MSNBC (Newhouse)

Pavarotti, in Australia to sing in new Superdome, angles for invite to play Sydney Olympics. – The Australian