“The collection includes prompt scripts, musical scores, photographs, costume designs, pay lists, reel to reel recordings, a set of clothes-peg dolls dressed as characters from HMS Pinafore and some devastatingly frank comments on auditions.”
Category: music
Spotify In Another Dispute Over Royalty Payments
“‘We used their data and it did not match up,’ Tony Brummel, Victory’s founder, said in an interview. ‘It was 30 percent off, meaning we were 30 percent underpaid.'”
Ex-Principal Cellist Writes Of Coping With Career-Ending Hearing Loss
Janet Horvath, formerly associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra: “After a second months-long round of doctor-hopping, I finally met an ENT who seemed to understand my condition. I had developed a noise-induced ailment called hyperacusis, he told me, an auditory injury caused by repeated exposure to high decibels or a single acoustic shock. It was characterized by abnormal sensitivity – in other words, the total breakdown of tolerance to all sound.”
UK’s Grange Park Opera Evicted From Grange Park, Which Will Start Its Own Opera Company
“Grange Park Opera, based at the Grange, Hampshire, is to leave its home of 18 years after one final season next summer, after a long-running dispute encompassing one of Britain’s best-known banking dynasties, a new demand for rent, and [television presenter] Bamber Gascoigne’s stately home.”
Children Don’t Need Anything Special To Listen To – And Enjoy – Classical Music
“I’m convinced that there is an evolutionary encoded thirst for artistic complexity and beauty, which can, and will, wither if it is not being nourished.”
New Music Sextet eighth blackbird Becomes Living Art Installation In Chicago
“While formal concerts in the Edlis Neeson Theater, in January and March, will be a central part of eighth blackbird’s residency, group members are devoting the bulk of their time to rehearsals, talks, workshops and educational activities, all of which the public is encouraged to take an active part in.”
L.A.’s Music Center Refuses To Turn Over Financial Records To County Supervisors
“The supervisors called for the audit after reports earlier this year that the Music Center was struggling financially. A 50th anniversary gala celebration in December 2014 had fallen short of fundraising goals, and subsequently the Music Center began to cut staff, slashed a much-praised program that sent teaching artists into public schools and saw most of its department heads depart.”
Look, Opera Tickets Are *Not* Expensive (And Here’s Proof)
“The entry-price (i.e. the cheapest ticket available for a performance or event) for opera is more or less the lowest entry-price of anything comparable. Let’s rephrase that, for all those suffering from opera-cliché syndrome: tickets are available for operas at cheaper prices than for any major cultural, sporting or tourist activity.”
Opera Philadelphia To Switch Regular Fall Season To Festival Format
Beginning in 2017, the company will offer six productions – concentrating on contemporary works and traditional repertory in unusual stagings – over 12 days in September, just before the beginning of the regular concert season. Three additional productions will be presented from February to April.
The Lost Performance Of James Baldwin And Ray Charles At Carnegie Hall
“If the image of Baldwin and Charles on stage together rings no bells, it may be because negative press had buried it out of range of critics.”