Category: music

“We come together as equals, true colleagues, which helps build and develop professionalism. In the orchestra, there will be a surgeon right next to a med-school student. They’re of the same importance.”

“Is plagiarism inevitable in pop music? Thanks to combinatorics, the answer is certainly no for a song at full length. And the answer is probably still no if one focuses on just the heart of a song–whatever, legally speaking, that is. But even a genius would probably be unable to write a new pop song that doesn’t resemble some old one for at least a bar or two.”

“Today, The Rite of Spring is practically an audience favorite and rioting in concert halls is unthinkable. But is this a good thing? Does classical music need more shock value, more scandals?”

“The English National Opera is to launch a new seat “lottery” scheme in an effort to draw bigger audiences, with visitors paying £20 for a ticket without knowing where they will end up sitting.”

“Music is a vast employer of young people, it is a vehicle for investment in the province, a digitally cutting-edge industry and one of Ontario’s global competitive advantages.”

The $700 million, 2,000-seat venue, “connected to the original, ornate 19th-century Mariinsky Theater by a pedestrian bridge over a canal, … is the first new Russian opera house to aspire to international significance since the time of the czars.”

“But the fertile interaction of classical and rock music evident in the Brooklyn Festival is hardly confined to that borough, or even to New York. It simply exemplifies a reality in which contemporary musicians work, and signals an imminent future in which even classical music’s flagship organizations — symphony orchestras and opera companies — will be forced to reconsider the genre boundaries that so long destructively divided classical and pop musics.”

“The orchestra recorded a profit of $425,613 last year, down from the $1.522 million profit of 2011, according to its annual report, released on Tuesday.”

“The Algerian government provided the land for the opera house, which will be the first in the Algerian capital, but not everyone is pleased with the development.”

“Sales of compilation albums have increased and make up a fifth of all UK albums sold, new figures show.”