The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini says we pretty much have to blame it all on Schoenberg.
Category: music
Some Concerts *Want* You To Drift Off
Seriously, these performers create music in complete darkness – and expect their audiences to unplug and, very possibly, fall asleep right there.
Fort Worth Symphony Strike Has No End In Sight, So What’s Next?
Well, what’s next is a comparison to Dallas, of course. For instance: “Bass Hall charges the Fort Worth Symphony $4,100 a day to use the facility, for both rehearsals and performances. The Meyerson Symphony Center, by comparison, charges the Dallas Symphony $1 a year.”
The Philadelphia Orchestra Joins The Music On Demand Game, For Love (And Some Money)
It’s not perfect or pretty, says reviewer David Patrick Stearns, but for $50, listeners can get access to a massive archive of the orchestra’s history.
How Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto Got Its World Premiere In Boston, Before The Boston Symphony Even Existed
It’s a story of rejection, ambition (artistic and municipal), and the poor guy that Cosima Liszt dumped to run off with Richard Wagner. (includes audio)
Remember Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts? The New York Phil’s Going To Start Putting Them Online
“[Philharmonic management] said Thursday that it was putting videos of Young People’s Concerts, and additional educational materials and interactive games, online for schools and families to stream for free. … The orchestra is calling the initiative ‘Young People’s Concerts Play!'”
America’s Most Un-Christian Church Came To Picket Juilliard, And Juilliard’s Students Rickrolled Them
“Protesters from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church took a break from their regular pious activities – such as demonstrating at soldiers’ funerals and proclaiming ‘god hates f*gs’ – to picket Thursday morning in front of the Upper West Side’s Juilliard School in Lincoln Center.” (Their stated reasons are quaintly Calvinistic.) Dozens of the school’s young musicians responded by doing what they do best.
Study: Seven Out Of Ten Musicians Report Mental Health Issues
Professionals working in the music industry, including those in theatre, may also be up to three times more likely to suffer from depression than the general public, according to the Help Musicians UK survey results.
Here’s The Apology Letter From The Guy Who Sprinkled His Friend’s Ashes And Shut Down The Met Opera
Roger Kaiser: “If I had ever thought anything like this could happen, I would never have done it. … No one ever cautioned that I should reconsider or not do it. I think we each just got caught up in the romanticism of it all. The ugly possibilities never occurred to anyone – myself included.”
The Muslim Female Singer Who Went To Pakistan To Feel Free
Compared to her home country, Saudi Arabia, singer-songwriter Rutaba Yaqub is freer: she can legally perform in public. And that’s what she’s doing. (includes audio)