Under David Bennett’s leadership, “the San Diego Opera will undoubtedly broaden its offerings to include chamber opera, concert opera, musical theater and other forms in which drama is communicated through singing, and the company expects to diversify beyond the Civic Theatre. What’s the exact balance?”
Category: music
Leonardo’s Odd Piano Is Heard 500 Years Later
The flat bed of its interior is lined with golden spruce. Sixty-one gleaming steel strings run across it, similar to the inside of a baby grand.
Each is connected to the keyboard, complete with smaller black keys for sharp and flat notes. But unlike a piano, it has no hammered dulcimers. Instead, there are four spinning wheels wrapped in horse-tail hair, like violin bows.
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New Initiative To Bring Diversity To Orchestras
“A new initiative will establish a groundbreaking fellowship program aimed at providing opportunities for under-served musicians at the graduate level. The intent is to help prepare them for the exceedingly competitive world of professional orchestras. The pilot program will start in the fall of 2016. It is the first program of its kind and could become a model for classical music organizations around the country.”
Salzburg Festival Makes Big Cuts In Budget, Performances
After an eight-percent budget cut down to 60 million euros ($65.2 million, £41.8 million), the 95th edition will feature only 188 performances compared with 270 last year.
Musicians Are Asking The Wrong Questions About Streaming
Like unmetered water, an all-you-can-eat buffet, or an unlimited cellphone contract, the new streaming music services create a different set of incentives for both customers and suppliers. To apply these changes to a mature ownership-based market, we have to forget a lot of things we didn’t even realize we had learned. The question we have to ask is not “Should I stream my stuff?” but “How does the existence of streaming services change my job?”.
Added By Popular Demand! Santa Fe Schedules Extra Performance Of Jennifer Higdon’s New Opera
Cold Mountain doesn’t open for another two weeks, and four of the originally planned five performances are already sold out.
The Classical Audience Isn’t Dying Off, It’s Just Changing, Says Richard Wagner’s (Other) Great-Granddaughter
Nike Wagner, director of Bonn’s Beethovenfest: “The connoisseurs of bygone times are giving way to the consumers of today. And these people tend to gravitate toward the mainstream, toward popular big events with pop, rock and entertainment. Yet classical music, in the widest sense, has always been written and intended for a minority audience. So it’s paradoxical – but this way, the highest quality, ‘elite’ works are also getting exposure.”
Neil Young Removes His Music From Streaming Services (But Not Because Of Money)
Neil Young says he’s removing his music from all streaming services because his songs are being “devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting.” In two Facebook posts, the Toronto-born 69-year-old denigrates streaming and notes his preference for the formats of yesteryear, including analog cassettes, eight tracks and AM radio.
Data’s In: The Most Popular Music Genre In The World
“Spotify has created a live ‘musical map of the world’, analysing nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for over 1000 cities.”
Is Streaming Helping Or Hurting The Music Business?
“I was interested in the number of streams I got on Spotify and I think it was around five million plays of the entire album from start to finish, in America, which for me was really exciting. But at the same time I didn’t see any money from that… so I don’t think it’s actually made a difference how the company sees me as an artist.”