“The architects were selected by the City of London Corporation from a shortlist of well-established names, including Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano, to design the new [£250 million] Centre for Music. The concert hall will be built on the current site of the Museum of London as a permanent home for Simon Rattle’s London Symphony Orchestra.”
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Met And Bolshoi To Co-Produce Three New Anna Netrebko Vehicles
The three productions – Verdi’s Aida, Strauss’s Salome and Wagner’s Lohengrin – are the first joint ventures for the two companies. No dates or directors have been announced yet, though Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin made a point of saying that the project has President Putin’s approval.
How Skiffle Gave Us The Music Revolution Of The 1960s
Lennon and McCartney are writing their own songs because skiffle has empowered them. And I don’t think there was that equivalent in the United States. There was no mass movement of school-aged boys playing three-chord blues songs in the United States. Skiffle was less like the punk scene and more like — do you know what a fidget spinner is?
A Free Piano In LA’s Union Station Equals Respect, And A Crowd, For This Homeless Musician
Matthew Shaver has been playing the piano since he was 4 years old, and being homeless – or “home-free,” as he calls it – isn’t stopping him, thanks to the free piano at Union Station. “The piano, he says, “is the most positive influence in my life. … I felt accepted, I felt wanted, I felt that I was useful, that I could do something that could last.”
The World’s Longest Piano Can Be Found In Dunedin, New Zealand
What’s the difference between it and even a grand piano? A lot: “It was a gigantic experiment. If you think of a typical concert piano, of course they sound amazing. But with this piano, there is an extra level of depth and resonance again because the piano wires are more than 20 feet long,”
The Otherworldly Falsetto Of Moses Sumney Comes From His Deep Childhood Shyness
The musician says he spent a lot of time singing under his breath at school. “At 10, his pastor parents moved from California, where he was born, to Accra in Ghana, where his fellow students would mock his American accent. It kickstarted what he calls ‘an almost obnoxious obsession with loneliness, singledom, isolation,’ which has permeated his music ever since.”
Why Women Pop Stars Don’t Make The Canon
Wesley Morris investigates: “We take female musicians just seriously enough not to notice that we don’t actually take them seriously enough. They matter in the present. But posterity is another matter. Posterity is keeping them down in the basement in case Tom Petty comes over.”
Music Education In The UK Is Contracting. And That, Say Musicians, Is A Big Problem
“Figures from the University of Sussex suggest the number of schools in England offering music GCSE has dropped from 85% to 79% between 2012 and 2016. The survey, which spoke to 657 state and 48 private schools across England, claimed the amount of 13 and 14-year-olds given compulsory music lessons fell by nearly 25%.”
How Spotify Shrank The Intros To Pop Songs
“The average intro is down from 20 seconds in the 1980s to just five seconds today. The fight to get to the crucial 30 seconds of play mark (after which Spotify pays out) means that many have resorted to using the intro to create a sort of potted highlights reel of the song yet to come.”
‘Shameful’: David Geffen Calls Out Wealthy New Yorkers For Not Donating To Geffen Hall Renovation Plan
“That a city that has as many wealthy individuals who’ve made a fortune in New York – that they couldn’t show up and support the most important cultural institution in New York, I think is too bad and shameful. New York deserves to have the best concert hall for the Philharmonic. New York should have the best of everything.”