Category: music

NPR: “Whether this is your first encounter with this epic work or the 30th (40th? 50th?) version you’ve heard, once you’ve entered the Denkian dimension, you won’t want to leave.”

Welp: “Bach’s education was troubled by gang warfare and bullying, sadism and sodomy – as well as his own extensive truancy.”

“The project’s creators, Simon de Diesbach, Jonas Lacôte, and Laura Perrenoud, imagine a future in which music will change drastically and picture the Computer Orchestra as a kind of humanizing antidote to symphonies created and played entirely by algorithm.”

“Those childhood violin studies of mine have shaped my adult ear and brain, and, when I listen to Mendelssohn or to any of the greats, I naturally respond in ways that are encouraged by the grand tradition. I do not know what it is to be a person without access to that tradition, and I can only picture a lack of access as a kind of poverty.”

“Musicians will receive a base salary increase of 1 percent in 2013 and a 2 percent increase in 2014. If goals for donor pledges and major lead gifts are realized, musicians will receive an additional 2 percent increase in 2015 retroactive to the beginning of the 2014-15 season.”

“The Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra’s management and musicians effectively called a time-out on their contract negotiations Thursday afternoon and are going on with Friday night’s concert. … Contract negotiations had been going on since April 2012 and reached a crescendo in the past week, when musicians voted to authorize a strike.”

The new production of Eugene Onegin that’s opening the new season “has taken an unusually precipitous tumble from sure thing … to headache-plagued.”

You read a review of something and some guy in New York says “This is the most important music since such and such.” And then when you look at it in a larger context, you say, “Well, can we really use the word ‘important’ for something that the majority of the people have never heard?”

“Without cassettes, we wouldn’t have the music industry as we know it today. Its impact has outlived the format itself, changing how we all listen to our favourite tunes.”

“The musicians of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra have voted to strike Friday night’s season-opening concert if they cannot come to terms with management on key points of a new contract before the performance.”