Category: music

It makes a peculiar kind of sense – you can buy a bar of soap or a bar of chocolate, so why not a bar of music?

“Police records show three armed robbery suspects were taken into custody on Monday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the violin had been recovered, and Milwaukee police have not released any new details in the case.”

Among the future highlights, the Philharmonic said, would be first editions of Berlioz’s “Benvenuto Cellini” and Wagner’s “Rienzi” overture, and a score of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 with evidence of a spat between two of the orchestra’s most illustrious music directors.

“Does it represent the new paradigm of concert hall sonics, or does it spell the death of “live” acoustic sound as we have grown to know it?”

“They will no doubt make beautiful music together at homecoming concerts this weekend. But offstage, tensions linger.”

“Music played on websites can evoke memories and feelings that affect purchases and choices visitors make on the site, suggests a study in the current issue of the Psychology of Music.”

“Good looks have long helped to compensate for a lack of talent across the entire music industry. But the sexualised marketing of young women, particularly, in classical music has also now become normalised.”

“Muti has honed these winter season announcements into a sort of high-wire performance art. It is something he clearly enjoys and always proves entertaining for the assembled press, if nerve-wracking for CSO staff who never know what the irrepressible maestro is going to say next.”

“Composers have spent 40 years adapting” what remains of the score of Queenie Pie, “trying to figure out what the Duke wanted for his unfinished opus.”

“I am concerned with YouTube entering the market because for YouTube everything is about dominance, and dominance is connected to destruction. I would rather prefer perhaps Google not being in music.”