“Music works in a different way than the courts work. The arts are often about breaking rules and the courts are about maintaining rules.”
Category: music
Why Are Non-Musicians Running Our Great Opera Houses?
“Sure, some of them will have worked in opera houses for quite a while, learning the ropes on their way up the greasy pole. But I bet I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of opera directors who are musicians in any shape or form. I’ve certainly met very few who can actually read a score.”
Eight Effective Ways To Practice Music
“A group of researchers led by Robert Duke of The University of Texas at Austin conducted a study several years ago to see if they could tease out the specific practice behaviors that distinguish the best players and most effective learners.”
How Musicians Conquer ‘Unplayable’ Works
“Classical composers have for centuries been dreaming up pieces so physically challenging they have initially been considered beyond the realm of human capability – until someone comes along and exerts such superhuman effort that they raise the bar for everyone else.”
Has Record Store Day Become Just A Marketing Hoax?
“Record Store Day, now a staple of the musical calendar in Britain and around the world, is facing increasing criticism that it is harming the very businesses it was originally set up to help.”
Mathematically, Just How Many Songs Are Possible From Our Musical Scale?
“Here is my plan. I am going to write one song. This one song will have every possible 3 note sequence. If this song then makes it to the top of the charts, every following song will be based on my One Song and thus owe me royalties…..profit.”
€50,000 Karajan Music Prize To Period-Performance Star Thomas Hengelbrock
“Hengelbrock is founder and director of the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, each dedicated to historically informed performance. … The annual award, presented by the Festpielhaus Baden-Baden in Germany, … [rquires] that the cash sum be used by the recipient to help further the careers of young musicians.”
From A Zulu Township To The World’s Great Opera Stages: Pretty Yende
She didn’t even know opera existed until she was 16 and heard the Lakmé Flower Duet on that British Airways commerical. “It didn’t sound human at all,” she says.
A “New Yorker” Financial Journalist Investigates Peter Gelb’s Met Opera House
James B. Stewart examines the company’s greatly increased expenses, falling attendance figures, drops in large donations, dissension on the board of directors, and the difficult 2014 labor negotiations (and the disputed financial data tossed around at the time).
Has The Classical Music World Expanded Enough To Truly Appreciate Schubert?
“This sense that at his death Schubert was an incomplete composer stemmed also from his preeminence in two fields of musical composition that lacked the requisite Beethovenian grandeur: song and dance.”