Category: music

“Deeply disappointed” is the way overseers chairman Lowell J. Noteboom characterized his reaction in an email to other overseers. “I believe the discontinuance of the overseers is a significant loss to Curtis and that the administrative burden could have been managed in ways that would not have required such drastic action. That said, there seemed to be no will to craft a different solution,” he wrote.

“In the end the [opera’s] message is that even a rich charismatic guy can not get away with predatory behavior, groping, serial rape, and, I’m sure, the occasional pussy-grab. The Don ends up dragged to hell.”

“Australia’s four major opera companies should receive more than $24m in extra federal funding over four years, according to recommendations from the long-awaited National Opera Review. Along with the proposal for extra funding, the review also recommended that one of the companies, Opera Queensland, be given three years to sort its finances out or lose its status as a Major Performing Arts (MPA) company, which secures it government funding.”

“Working with composers, I was realizing that there was a whole part of the musical creative process that I didn’t have firsthand experience with. So I started kind of entering that realm, from different directions, just to understand a little bit more of how a composer gets to the final point of the piece that they write.”

“Did you know that tritones signify the Devil and Satan and evil spirits in music and that everyone just used to ‘know this’ and ‘recognize this’ and if you heard it in a piece you’d be like, ‘oh, right, the Devil’?”

“Both sides say they plan to return to negotiations this week — for the first time since the strike began — and have agreed to bring in a neutral financial expert to review the symphony’s finances.”

“Some of her dialogue, which Justice Ginsburg will deliver in English in an opera that is being sung in French, has been rewritten with her in mind. So a line that may be unfamiliar to the devoted opera lovers who read websites such as Parterre Box will be readily recognizable to court watchers who spend their time on SCOTUSblog.”

“It can be inspiring, or it can be the thing that eats you. I love living with that kind of intensity. I’m not an adrenaline junkie in any other way, but playing a great work, in real time, for an audience is exhilarating in a way that I need.”

““The union and management agree that Fort Worth wants its orchestra back, and we want nothing more than the musicians to end their strike and return to work. … However, our ideas of how to accomplish this are in direct opposition.”

Currently the chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, United Kingdom, Juanjo Mena has made several recordings with that orchestra, including a Falla album named Recording of the Month by BBC Music magazine His previous posts are artistic director and principal conductor of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (1999-2008) and principal guest conductor of both the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway and Teatro Carlo Felice, in Genoa, Italy.