“The cost of all the extra elements far outweighed the revenue from ticket sales. And the ability to attract large philanthropic funds to support the project after its third or fourth or fifth year became very difficult. For the last five years, it was losing quite a bit of money.”
Category: music
Lost Score To Missing Malcolm Arnold Symphony Discovered On EBay
It is thought that Sir Malcolm Arnold, a manic depressive, schizophrenic and alcoholic, could have given the work away in lieu of payment to a plumber or repairman, after the Court of Protection stopped him accessing his bank account.
Utah Symphony, Once Foundering, Is On An Upswing, Thanks In Part To Government Funding (!)
The orchestra – which has a popular and energetic music director (Thierry Fischer), big education and state touring programs, and growth in both single-ticket sales and subscriptions – gets nearly a fifth of its operating revenue from state and local governments.
Melbourne Symphony Posts Both Record Attendance And Deficit
“The $577,653 deficit, detailed in its annual report, comes after the MSO ended 2014 with more than $200,000 in surplus. The orchestra actually increased its box office takings last year ($10.2 million up from $10 million) but chairman Michael Ullman said it wasn’t enough.”
A Symphony For Tape Decks (Talk About Historical Instruments …)
No Sharps, No Flats is an installation made up of 30 partially deconstructed boom boxes with tape decks, each one containing a composition by metro D.C. musicians. All of the music is in C major. Harmonious? Not for long – because it’s all on cassette tape, which has problems you youngsters don’t know about and the rest of us may have forgotten …
Subversive Opera That Hooks You Without You Realizing It
“We created a show and pretended it was going to be a rock concert. Booked a rock venue and advertised it as an indie rock show. Made up the name Liederwolfe. Everyone in the Montreal scene was curious and it was packed. And then people came on stage and sang opera. People freaked out – it was a real happening – it was great. People were yelling, people walked out – but some people stayed. They brought their friends the next time. And they stayed with us and became our core audience for eight years.”
Esa-Pekka Salonen Nails A Big Problem With Classical Music Marketing
“We have been so apologetic in this, what we call classical music, that we say: ‘You don’t have to know anything, you don’t have to have any background, you don’t have to have any frame of reference, just come with an open mind, and you’ll love it. It doesn’t quite work like that. Because if I go to an American football game not knowing anything about the rules – as, I have to admit, I don’t – it’s totally meaningless.”
Anna Netrebko Decides Not To Sing Norma After All, Leaving London And New York In The Lurch
New productions of Bellini’s Norma built around Netrebko were planned as season opening galas at Covent Garden this fall (her debut in the role) and the Met in the fall of 2017. However, she has announced, “I have come to the unfortunate conclusion my voice has evolved in a different direction.”
A Flute That Plays Itself, From 9th-Century Baghdad
It was invented by three scholarly brothers named Banū Mūsā, and it has been reconstructed according to their treatise by a museum in Germany. (The brothers also invented an automatic hydraulic organ that could play with punch cards similar to player piano rolls.)
How Technology Brings Music (And The Means Of Making It) To Everyone
“Consider hypothetically that a philanthropist wants to create a music education library in every country of the world that just has the contents printed out of what is on IMSLP. Billions and billions of pieces of paper would be necessary, and transport mechanisms, and duplicates, etc. But make it PDF music, and in fact what exists right this moment is a situation where every spot on the globe that has even a moderate internet connection has exactly this library, without one piece of paper being printed.”