Category: music

“Diligent Globe editors from the top of the masthead down have committed to find ways in which to perpetuate and preserve arts coverage in some serious, rigorous form, while also endeavoring to protect the institution’s larger mission, preserve jobs, and find novel solutions to emerging problems. This Rubin association certainly fits that last category.”

“There was a lot of attention towards me. I’m in my 50s. I’m not quite one foot in the grave, but it does kind of feel like it’s all over. I’m glad that the royalties will pay my bills and that I have enough new work, but boy, it sure seems like a different world we’re living in.”

“The abridged version of The Marriage of Figaro – a partnership with Scottish Opera, and supported by the Life Changes Trust – will soften sound and lighting, add a narrator to the stage, and allow audiences to travel freely between the auditorium and the foyer during the performance.”

Julian Eastman’s music is mightily impressive, writes Zachary Woolfe – and the man himself was a train wreck.

People’s minds tend to wander, “and we know that a wandering mind is unhappy,” Dr. Sood said. “Most of that time, we are focusing on the imperfections of life.” Music can bring us back to the present moment. “It breaks you out of just thinking one way,” said Teresa Lesiuk, an assistant professor in the music therapy program at the University of Miami.

There’ll be a 4% pay increase in each of the first two years, with compensation to be reviewed thereafter.

Meet Noluvuyiso Mpofu. (includes audio)

With funding provided by San Francisco-based organizations, Zoë Madonna, who won the 2014 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism at the Institute, starts a 10-month post as classical music critic at the Globe on Monday, corresponding with a temporary leave by Globe critic Jeremy Eichler, who is now a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

The endowment fund had a four-year goal to reach $25 million, the life of the current labor agreement with the musicians. Instead, the endowment goal was reached in two years. Over the past year, nine new musicians have joined the orchestra.