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How Jeremy Denk Made Peace With The Goldberg Variations
“In fact, the Goldberg Variations have caused me more misery than any other piece of music in history, with the exception of the Tchaikovsky Trio (for totally different reasons). How many hours have I spent backstage fretting, knowing that there will be several insufferable know-it-alls in the audience, with their 700 recordings and deeply considered opinions?”
Brain Research After The Mozart Effect
“One of the difficulties of the Mozart Effect was it was associated with the passive listening of music. The work that Virginia and I have been talking about is really in stark contrast to that. It is the active engagement with an instrument.”
New $20K Prize For Dramatic Sopranos
Elizabeth Connell, the dramatic soprano who died last year at age 65, left in her will an endowment for a competition for developing singers in her difficult-to-fill Fach, with a top prize of $20,000 (Aus) and an audition at Covent Garden. The inaugural event will take place in Sydney in 2014, with Richard Bonynge leading the jury.
What Is The Oregon Symphony Hiding?
A reporter asks how much the orchestra’s music director makes and is given the run-around. Interesting. Non-profits are required to report the salaries of their highest-paid employees. So what is the orchestra hiding?
As Churches Decline, A Surge In Organ Music?
“The standard of organ playing in the US is higher than it has ever been in history. Perhaps there are not quite as many students as there were, say, 50 years ago, but the quality is remarkably higher.”
Study: Those Music Lessons You Took As A Kid? They’ll Help When You Get Old
“In a just-published study, senior citizens who took four to 14 years of music training early in life performed better than non-musicians on a specific brain function that is vital for interpersonal communication: recognizing fast-changing sounds.”
Musical America Names Audra McDonald Musician of the Year
Joining the five-time Tony winner among the publication’s honorees are Written on Skin composer George Benjamin, conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, pianist and new MacArthur Fellow Jeremy Denk, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, directed by another new MacArthur winner, Claire Chase.
Actual Roast Turkeys And Cakes For L.A. Opera’s Falstaff
“Rupert Hemmings, the opera’s senior director of production, … said that if food is to be used in an opera, planning has to start months in advance. If we have to have food actually eaten on stage, then we have to start consulting with the singer way ahead of time. What will they eat? Are they allergic to something? Do they not like to eat? Will they pretend to eat? How much do they want to eat?'”
Philadelphia Orchestra To Tour Europe In Spring 2015
Unusually, the announcement came not from orchestra officials on Broad Street, but from Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in London, where he was on a trade mission.