“It includes rousing performances of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, ‘Rule Britannia’ and ‘Jerusalem’ always accompanied by a sea of Union Jacks, but … The Guardian understands activists will be outside the Royal Albert Hall in force on Saturday handing out thousands of EU flags, which they hope audience members will wave instead of, or even along with, the traditional red, white and blue.”
Category: music
Study: A Measurable Bias About Rap Music
“Those who were told the lyrics were from a rap song perceived them to be more negative overall,” the researchers report. They were also more likely to favor regulation of the lyrics, and more likely to believe they were literally true.
Fort Worth Symphony Musicians Vote To Authorize Strike
“The strike authorization vote comes as the American Federation of Musicians Local 72-147 plans to reopen contract negotiations with symphony management on Wednesday morning. Musicians rejected a proposed four-year deal that included lower annual pay on Sunday.”
Inside Dubai’s Lavish New Opera House
“Dubai Opera is attempting to rival the famous Sydney Opera House, with 2,000 seats, an elegantly designed marble interior boasting a dramatic multi-story 11,000-pound glass chandelier, and by hosting talent like the prestigious tenor Plácido Domingo. But perhaps even more striking than the glamorous décor is the building itself, inspired by the dhow, the traditional ship found in the Persian Gulf.”
Does The Glamor-Driven Music Business Work Anymore?
“Consider this fact: more people watched The Great British Bake Off the previous week. Online streams for the MTV show were up, but that offers little consolation to promoters who depend on TV advertising to fund their gala events. Those golden days when Miley Cyrus twerked her way to MTV rating success now seem a blurred, distant memory.”
Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians And Management Can’t Agree On Contract, Push Back Deadline
“The PSO’s management and musicians have agreed to a two-week extension on the musicians’ current contract, … [which] was to expire at midnight [Sunday night]. The extension ends on Sept. 18, allowing the PSO to go forward with its fundraising gala on Sept. 17.”
San Diego Symphony Musicians Accept New Five-Year Contract
“Annual wages for 82 full-time musicians in the 106-year-old orchestra will jump from just under $70,000 in the first year to $80,000 when the contract concludes in 2021.”
‘Back Off’, English National Opera’s New Chief Says To Opera Skeptics, ‘Stop Coming For Our Building’
Daniel Kramer: “Just because you don’t get opera, and that it does something superhuman, that doesn’t mean that it’s not a viable art form. … What we need to show is that this is such an important art form that we deserve to get back to 14 shows a year.”
Los Angeles Needs A Summer Music Festival Of Its Own (Just Ask Salzburg)
“As the city weighs the feasibility of its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, let us remember what it meant in 1984 when L.A. mounted an Olympic Arts Festival that changed the complexion of performance arts in Los Angeles. Do we have it in us to do it again?”
What One Pianist Would Do If He Were A Prommer, Not A Performer
“It’s great to be on stage facing such an overwhelming – in a good way! – crowd. And it’s a unique audience because those at the front in the arena are standing. It’s a very interesting atmosphere for an artist to experience.”