Category: music

“We used the shoelaces to create the strings on an electric guitar. … We made a microphone, we made a contrabass, a feedback synth. We used our speaker kit and the box to create the amp connected to the instrument.”

“We’ve all had moments when we’ve dozed off. But there is also a sense that the best art is like life. Some of it is a bit dull, but you need the boring parts to appreciate the climaxes.”

“I get all my conducting sticks in [Harry Potter’s] Diagon Alley.”

“We have to be a bit careful of the way music and story go together. … It can ignite immediate joy or sadness or fear in young children.”

Nearly a decade after the Deutsche Oper and the Staasoper faced a sever cash crunch and a possible merger, “while rivalry between the two institutions has not completely subsided, recent changes suggest a new era of high ambition and close cooperation.”

As of 2016, “the SWR Symphony Orchestra, based in Freiburg and Baden-Baden, is merging with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, thanks to a combination of budgetary cuts at the radio organisation that pays for both of them and what musicians in Germany call the ‘cultural barbarity’ of the radio bosses.”

“How does this new technology help solve the so-called ‘crisis’? Clearly, the age of this audience is mostly younger. We know this through the comments we receive each week. They love, not only the programs, but also the additional content.”

“Simon Morrison, a musicologist at Princeton University, said the potential acquisition by Russia could shape a particular portrayal of Rachmaninoff and open new doors for researchers.”

“After more than five decades with a single artistic director, the late Dorothea Kelley, the group now has neither an artistic nor an executive director.”

“Opera is a messy, insanely complex undertaking and finances are always a concern. But for now, Chicago opera lovers are basking in the luxury of multiple choices.”