Category: music

Limelight, launched in 1976 as the magazine of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Classic FM radio and spun off in 2006, cancelled printing of its March issue on Tuesday and laid off its staff. Said publisher Andrew Batt-Rawden, “The magazine has improved a lot financially, we are reaching a big audience across Australia and a few internationally, but my personal situation was that I simply couldn’t continue the monthly profit and loss.” (He is talking to potential buyers.)

The Order of Montreal was founded in 2016 in honor of the city’s 375th anniversary, and Dutoit – music director of the Montreal Symphony from 1977-2002, and the conductor who brought the orchestra to international prominence – was one of its first recipients. Now, with serious allegations of sexual misconduct being revealed, Montreal mayor Valérie Plante has asked the committee administering the Order to consider whether Dutoit’s award should be revoked.

“They were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and Ringo arranged a version of “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for Starr’s 1970 solo debut album Sentimental Journey, which was produced by the Beatles’ frequent collaborator George Martin. The song, and album, are more than a bit gloopy. had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said, “Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.” So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though.

“I compared the music of NBC and CBC — the official Olympic networks in the United States and Canada — to explore what might be revealed in the differences of the cultures of sounds between the two countries.”

Every change in our tax laws inevitably creates new winners and losers. Examining this new tax bill, I may have discovered the biggest losers of all — orchestra musicians.

That’s Mark Swed’s verdict on the 100th anniversary season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It begins late next September with a festival of Californian music and a parade-cum-street-fair running from Disney Hall to the Hollywood Bowl.

None of the Asian-style gongs that Puccini could find in 1920s Italy had just the sound – more precisely, the pitches – he wanted. So he had a set specially fabricated. Of course, Puccini died before the opera’s premiere, and the gongs slipped people’s minds afterward. But not everyone forgot.

The potential of music to empower and soothe people living with dementia has been outlined in a new report, which calls for increased collaboration between politicians, technology companies, arts organisations and the healthcare sector to make access to the artform easier.

“The 9,700-tonne ferry, the Mangyongbong 92, was escorted into the eastern South Korean port of Mukho, where throngs of demonstrators were waiting. Some held large photos of the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un, with black crosses drawn through them.”

According to data from the Billboard Hot 100, a weekly ranking of the most popular singles in the country, collaborations now represent more than a third of hit songs. Of the top ten songs on the current Hot 100 chart, half are credited to more than one artist.