Category: music

Britain’s National Center for Popular Music, a $28 million museum that opened in March is deep in debt and attracting few of the masses of visitors it hoped for. – BBC
UPDATE: Pop Museum rescued with bailout. – BBC 11.03.99

Milwaukee Symphony playing a happy tune. – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 

Marilyn Horne announced from a Chicago stage Sunday that that was her final concert after a 45-year career. – Chicago Tribune

New York City Ballet orchestra strike isn’t about pay or benefits. It’s about work schedules and rehearsals and making the orchestra better. – New York Times

28-year-old Brit Thomas Ades has won one of the composition world’s biggest prizes, the Grawemeyer. – Washington Post

Tenor Andrea Bocelli made his North American opera debut with “Werther” in Detroit this weekend. One critic calls the performance brave and given with charm, but his untrained voice was “inadequate and ultimately boring.” – Detroit News
(AND: Other reviews – New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune)

A case for the 20 most important jazz recordings ever. – Commentary

Music theft has become rampant on the internet. Now a plan by the global music industry to fight digital pirates. – Wired

Toronto Symphony musicians have been on strike for five weeks – they haven’t negotiated for a month. This week they offered to come individually to orchestra board members homes and play for them – and plead their case. – CBC

When an instrument upstages the performer playing it. – San Francisco Chronicle
(PREVIOUSLY: PAGANINI’S FAVORITE VIOLIN – a Guarneri called “the Cannon” – is brought out only for special occasions. This week it got only its second-ever concert in America. – San Francisco Examiner 10/28/99)