Category: music

“The arrival of a new breed of administrator intimately acquainted with the players and the music itself points to a potential change in climate.”

We focus on creativity, of course (and revision). “By doing all this we allow [students] to see themselves, their work, and their life through a new, creative lens.”

“Doug Wright, a member of the musician’s negotiating committee, says the offer, which cuts salaries by almost 18 percent over three years, was based on a management business model which believes classical music is dead.”

“Doug Wright, a member of the musician’s negotiating committee, says the offer, which cuts salaries by almost 18 percent over three years, was based on a management business model which believes classical music is dead.”

“Two years later, as it prepares to wind up its affairs, company officials, former board members and experts in the field say the very steps City Opera took to save itself may have hurt it as much as they helped.”

“It drives me nuts a little bit. Without structural and legal support, we’ve categorized an entire area of culture as being off limits for MOOCs. And I have issues with that, coming from a school of music.”

“Some studies have found that horn players are blasted with some of the loudest sounds in the orchestra. The levels are so high that many countries’ occupational health regulations would limit exposure like that to a half-hour a day.”

“The Minnesota Orchestra sweetened its offer to locked-out musicians Thursday, after an 11th-hour fundraising effort led by Marilyn Carlson Nelson, one of Minnesota’s wealthiest people. The latest proposal in the bitter yearlong dispute includes a $20,000 one-time bonus to each musician, to help offset a pay cut that would reduce base salaries over three years.”

While being treated for cancer this month, Mortier found himself replaced as artistic director of Spain’s largest opera house after suggesting publicly that there were no Spaniards fit to succeed him. Now, doubtless to avoid a lawsuit, the Real has named Mortier artistic adviser. Says the house’s president, “There has been absolutely no firing” – just a switch to a position “with less concrete functions.”

The British vocal quartet – which was founded in 1973 to specialize in medieval and Renaissance music but in recent years has earned its plaudits singing contemporary works – will give a special reunion concert with former members this December, do a set of farewell tours through next year, and retire after a final performance in London in December 2014.