“Salem Chamber Orchestra has canceled the three remaining concerts of its 2015-2016 season. The board came to this decision during the past week and is seeking legal counsel to discuss a potential bankruptcy. Teresa Cox, interim executive director, could not confirm whether the 31-year-old nonprofit is dissolving.”
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Is The New York Philharmonic Moving To Hunter College During The Two-Year Renovation Of Its Hall?
“Orchestra officials, who have mapped where their subscribers and single-ticket buyers live, recognize that they will need to play most of their core season at centrally located spots in Manhattan, and that they will need a base of operations for most concerts and rehearsals. That is where Hunter comes in.”
Should London Be Getting A New Performance Hall That’s Only For One Orchestra?
“Among groups gathering to fight the recommended site are those worried about an expensive new facility that might come to be dominated by just one London orchestra and those who think the City of London is the wrong place to attract new audiences.”
The Louisville Orchestra Looks Like It’s Recovering, And On The Rise
“Optimism colors most discussions regarding the orchestra these days, and its primary source is the now 28-year-old Mr. Abrams, a native of Oakland, Calif., and a protégé of Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony’s longtime music director. In addition to his talents as a conductor, Mr. Abrams is also an accomplished clarinetist and pianist.”
How Composer John Luther Adams Spends His Sundays
“‘I was terrified of losing my inspiration, that without Alaska I wouldn’t be able to do my work,’ Mr. Adams, 62, said, adding: ‘But the good news is that I can in fact work in New York. It is a struggle, but I have done some significant work here.'”
If You’re Feeling Isolated, Join A Choir (It’s What Our Ancestors Did)
“Newly published research confirms that raising voices together is an effective way to forge feelings of connection and inclusion. Moreover, it finds this effect is particularly robust for singers who are part of a sizable ensemble featuring many unfamiliar faces.”
The Problem Isn’t Blackface In Opera, It’s Opera’s Scarcity Of Black Faces
Anne Midgette moderates a conversation between five rising African-American opera singers – Alyson Cambridge, Soloman Howard, Kenneth Kellogg, Deborah Nansteel, and Russell Thomas – about the issues they face in their careers in 2015. (The makeup in Otello is not one of them.)
The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
“A new documentary film called All Things Must Pass charts the rise and fall of Tower, from its origins in a Sacramento drugstore in 1960, to its glory days of cocaine-fueled rock-and-roll excess (topping $1 billion in sales), to its stunning downfall. It features interviews and reminiscences with the store’s employees – some of whom rose from scruffy clerks to become top brass.”
Pandora And Big Labels Settle Suit For $90 Million
“The settlement, which follows a similar deal in June for $210 million between the labels and Sirius XM, resolves one aspect of a dispute over an obscure legal point: Federal copyright protection applies only to recordings made after 1972, with a patchwork of state laws applying to earlier recordings.”
Why Are Music Scholars Ignoring The Growing Evidence For Musical Universals?
Ted Gioia: “The evidence that different cultures share fundamental approaches to music-making is mounting, yet the scholars who specialize in world music prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist. What’s going on?”