Category: music

“Spanish concert pianist Laia Martin is on trial and could face more than seven years in jail after a neighbor complained her practicing caused psychological damage.”

“It is time to move in a different direction — to create a new organization built on collaboration and a shared vision, not confrontation and leverage.”

“The OSM silenced speculation Monday by announcing a four-year extension of Kent Nagano’s contract as music director. The American conductor will be at the helm of the orchestra – and a fixture in the Montreal arts landscape – until Aug. 31, 2020, at which point he will be 68.”

“At this point, the orchestra mainly exists in name only. It has no staff, no season and meager financial assets. The orchestra played its last and only concert of the 2012-2013 season in June, and after that, Artistic Director Alan Pierson’s contract wasn’t renewed.”

“Employees were told that lack of funds accrued from the recent nine-day fundraising campaign, which a source described as a colossal failure, was to blame.”

A new music director, some financial stability and some forward-thinking…

“There are scholars who say that in Bach’s day, some boys’ voices didn’t change until as late as 17. Now boys’ voices are changing earlier, a lot earlier.”

“I was just like these kids,” said linebacker Elvis Dumervil, who’s giving private money alongside his team’s $15,000 donation. “I think it’s cool.”

“It didn’t seem possible, but the Minnesota Orchestra standoff has grown even more intractable in the six weeks since music director Osmo Vänskä resigned.”

Speculation about what the characters would do after the opera’s narrative ends, aka fan fiction.