Category: music

“I’m very, very proud but I’m also a little bit surprised that we can arrive at the year 2013 and there can still be firsts for women.”

“The Met, in a statement, said that [Warner] bowed out because of ‘an unexpected surgical procedure and the expected recovery time’.” Shaw, who has worked closely with Warner for decades, is known primarily as an actress but has directed theater before.

Kevin Puts: “The symphony is not a trifle. It is not cute or hip or light. It says something important – about life and death and cosmic stuff – and it does so without embarrassment. … I need a private place where I can express the spiritual, the epic, the heartbreaking without shame or embarrassment. My Symphony No. 1 led me to this place.”

He’s a tenor stuck in the 18th century. She’s a soprano who evolves over time.

“Even though I was there two hours early last night, nearly every inch of the park was claimed, and people were directed to 14th Street, which was closed off for extra seating.”

“As it became increasingly adaptive for humans to live in social groups, various biological and psychological mechanisms evolved in order to maintain a group structure,” they write in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “We hypothesize that human musicality is one of those mechanisms.”

“The new Bayreuth Ring is not just a scandal, and not only a musical triumph. It is a crisis of content for the Wagner Festival, and calls into question the future of the genre.”

“Budgets for these operatic laboratories are minuscule, but the atmosphere is rich in constructive critical encouragement. As yet, no masterpieces have emerged from the Petri dish, but one day who knows?”

“The Thai Elephant Orchestra has produced three albums.”