Category: music

The five finalists were selected after a nationwide search for the UK’s most inspirational amateur orchestra.

“Over the course of the festival, we attended 14 productions out of the more than 25 presented, taking us to four out of five boroughs, from a Harlem school to a West Village townhouse to a basketball court in Brooklyn. Along the way we saw works presented in unconventional venues and on screens; discovered lesser-known and brand new works; and witnessed innovative approaches to reaching new audiences. Here is what we learned.”

Double bassist Lauren Pierce talks with Douglas Rosenthal about the internal conflicts she went through after the incident, her decision to go public, and the reactions from supporters and trolls alike.

“Benefiting from the cross-pollination of regions and genres, these collaborations can introduce the featured artists to new audiences, with rappers and crooners crossing over among dance-pop aficionados. But the producers are pulling the strings and rightly taking much of the credit.”

“CGA has long been vivid enough to create its own world. But such effects have now attained a fluidity persuasive enough to behave like cinema.”

“Blithely ignoring conflicts of interest, he remained a working composer throughout his tenure at The Herald Tribune. His pieces were performed by leading orchestras, sometimes with Thomson conducting! He reviewed ensembles and artists who performed his music, usually quite favorably. While at the paper, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Far from being embarrassed, his editors boasted of their critic’s accomplishment.”

“While major labels repeatedly shunned the singer as over the hill and ‘too dark,’ she finally found a perfect partner, and a breakthrough, via the fledgling indie Daptone Records, which specializes in reanimating the vintage sounds of soul, funk and Latin music”