“An employee of a philharmonic in western Poland was charged with murder in the double homicide of a young female harpist and a security guard inside the orchestra’s building.”
Category: music
Another Star Is Born? On Opening Night, L.A. Opera Understudy Goes On At Last Minute
Curtain time was 12 minutes away when soprano Elisabete Matos, set to sing Senta in the company’s new staging of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman, realized that she was developing a chest cold and, as conductor James Conlon put it, “was not breathing the way she needed to sing.” Enter the heroine …
It’s 100 Years Since We First Started Talking Jazz
“The word “jazz” didn’t appear in print with any frequency until March 1913, exactly a century ago. What’s more, it doesn’t seem to have had anything to do with music, nor was the word coined in New Orleans.”
How Many Canadians Does It Take To Make A Symphony?
Try 5000.
Making Music Work For A Deaf Audience
The sound box: “It was a buzz. It was vibrating, but I felt that when we were actually part of the orchestra, that was enhanced. And it was a weird, odd, fantastic and new experience.”
The Classical Pianists With 55 Million YouTube Views
“Finally I came up with the crazy decision to just put all 24 tracks on YouTube myself, as I couldn’t keep control of my product anymore. Then a strange thing happened,” says Ms. Lisitsa: Sales of her DVD shot up on Amazon.
Study: High Percentage Of Orchestra Musicians Suffer Stage Fright
According to a study from the University of Paderborn in 2012, 13 percent orchestra musicians suffer from severe stage fright and another 30 percent suffer “moderate” cases.
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Vote To Authorize Strike
“A strike looms at the San Francisco Symphony, with its musicians authorizing the job action if an agreement cannot be reached on salary and benefit issues. … The musicians have been performing without a contract since an extension of its existing one expired Feb. 15. … The strike, if it occurs, would force cancellation of the orchestra’s upcoming East Coast tour,”
Lawmakers Demand Audit Of Minnesota Orchestra
“A group of almost 100 DFL legislators wants the state to audit the books of the Minnesota Orchestra – although it is unclear exactly what the scope of that request includes.” The group “cited the public investment of $14 million in bonding and more than $1 million in Legacy Fund money in the orchestra, which has locked out its musicians in a labor dispute.”
Another Kentucky Orchestra Faces Musicians Contract Struggles
About a day after the Louisville Orchestra announced the end of a three-year battle over pay and working conditions for its players, news hits that the Lexington Philharmonic management and musicians have been in dispute since April over provisions in a new contract.