“The schools announced on Tuesday that their governing bodies had unanimously agreed to the deal, six months after they began exploring a merger. The neighboring schools have started an accreditation review process that is expected to be finished early this year. The combined school will be known simply as Berklee.”
Category: music
Anne Midgette: New Opera Is Very Healthy If You Know Where To Look
“Classical music, some say, is in decline. I say, over and over, that it isn’t. Classical music is just fine. It’s the institutions that perform it that are having trouble. … Of course, new work has an audience. It just may not be a traditional opera audience.”
A Philosophy Of Music – Our Musical Conventions Are Discoveries, Not Decisions
“We need to go back over the ground so intricately covered by that great work of art, and to raise again the question that motivates it: how to reconcile future creativity with the legacy of our past agreements?”
Hartford Symphony Music Director Says She’ll Accept Pay Cut Similar To Musicians’
Carolyn Kuan: “Given the urgency of the situation, I want to personally recognize the substantial cuts being asked of the musicians of the HSO and offer publicly to share their sacrifice by reducing my salary commensurately.”
Hartford Symphony Musicians Accept Pay Cut Management Demanded To Keep Orchestra Open
“The union faced a deadline of midnight Monday to agree to concessions. Without a vote accepting $450,000 in wage concessions, management said it would shut down the symphony.”
How Do Composers’ Collectives Work?
“Composers’ collectives have always had a certain combative spirit. But it is perhaps a sign of the fuzzy warmth of the current all-embracing new-music scene, where no one style is dominant, that composers seem to band together in order to argue with one another, rather than take up the fight against a perceived status quo.”
Boston Symphony Orchestra Loans Patrons iPads To Increase Engagement
“They’ll be able to view sheet music for the pieces being played, video interviews with musicians, podcasts about the composers and analysis on the works themselves. They’ll also get a close-up view of the conductor from the musicians’ point of view from video monitors set up in the hall.”
Dear London: If You Get A New Concert Hall, Ignore The Sponsors And Think Acoustics First
“This is not just a question of sound. At its very best a visit to a musical performance is a multi-sensory, spatial, three-dimensional experience. It is influenced by the properties of surfaces, materials and light, interactions between performers, audience and each other, the way you move through foyers and up stairs and lifts. It extends to the streets around.”
Reviving, Or Rebooting, ‘The People’s Opera’ In New York
“A revived City Opera could take on not only the old company’s name but also much of its former agenda: developing young American singers, nurturing homegrown composers, and mounting theatrically innovative productions.”
Ronald Perelman Apparently Resigned From The Carnegie Hall Board Earlier This Month
“His departure came less than a year after Mr. Perelman was tapped to be the chairman of Carnegie’s board, beginning a rocky era in which he clashed with Clive Gillinson (who has been the hall’s executive and artistic director for a decade) and other board members.”