Category: music

“Park Hyun-jung, president of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, announced on Monday afternoon that she will step down after being accused of sexual harassment and verbal abuse by her employees in early December. The announcement came a day before the orchestra’s board of directors was to officially dismiss her from her post during a board meeting.”

“Fitful attempts to bring cabaret to television in a variety-show format have fizzled. The pace of contemporary life is too fast and too loud to showcase new, rising talent in an intimate, convivial atmosphere. Nowadays, singing on television is a competitive sport.”

“I had arrived in the promised land — or at least Spotifyland — no more bulky records and CDs strewn about my home requiring alphabetization, no more ripping, no more glitchy files downloaded nefariously from KaZaa needing to be retitled and volume equalized, no more agonizing how I would parse my eMusic allowance, no more checking and unchecking tracks in iTunes so I could get just the right 19,873 songs on my iPod classic.”

“It all felt a bit far-fetched. I went in to talk to them at the studio and we started working immediately. There wasn’t even time to think about it.”

“Inheritance battles propel plenty of operas … but the one playing out in court over the few remaining possessions of the bankrupt New York City Opera — mainly its name and its Manhattan thrift shop — is proving rich in operatic drama and characters.”

“Those working in the trenches of classical music must view ‘The Nutcracker’ with envious despair. For choruses everywhere, the holiday season is the time for Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ and there is a sizable audience happy to hear it annually. Music doesn’t get any better than this.”

“As the tastes of young, wealthier Indians shift to more modern music, young couples increasingly choose DJs playing electronic music instead of live bands. The shift is leaving band owners and musicians struggling to find gigs, exacerbating an already difficult existence.”

“According to reports, Google has begun including lyrics in the results pages for certain search terms . When US-based users search for phrases like “stairway to heaven lyrics” or “comfortably numb lyrics”, the words to these songs appear at the top of the page, above the corresponding listings for third-party sources.”

“Madam, I am trying to give you my best, but you have no respect for it! Those who take photographs during concerts are badly educated. I have asked at every concert. The first time nicely, but now it’s serious.”

“The factual errors are so great that it would be as though someone set out to dramatize the reality show Deadliest Catch by showing a group of fishermen sitting on a dock in Alaska trying to catch crabs with fishing rods.”