Category: music

The cast of the comedy drama Glee have smashed Elvis Presley’s record for the fastest act to score 20 top 40 hits, according to the Official Charts Company.

“Gehry’s concert hall for the New World Symphony, an elite training orchestra that is one of the most innovative musical organizations in the country, is the first American concert space built from the ground up to include sophisticated video, theater-style lighting and flexible stage space that can accommodate not just an orchestra, but soloists and chamber groups. It also happens to be one of Gehry’s best buildings in years.”

“Turnage’s willingness to engage with the nitty gritty of contemporary life is matched by his openness to popular music: most obvious has been a love of jazz, with nods to such artists as Miles Davis, going back to the very beginning of his career, but he doesn’t deal exclusively with such respected work.”

“I’m a big fan of keeping the music serious but making the rest of it accessible,” Rhodes says. “I hate the term ‘classical music’. Why not just call it ‘music’ and play it on Absolute Radio? There’s a massive snobbishness from the powers that be.”

“The proposal may represent a turning point in negotiations. Talks between management and musicians appeared to be in jeopardy Saturday morning, when management broke a mutually agreed-upon news blackout to claim that the players had yet to provide a true three-year, $36-million proposal, which they had previously endorsed.”

“Media is not neutral. Technology acts as an extension of our will. Gustavo Dudamel blown up to many times his size and illuminated in a darkened cinema in Tampa or Toronto, while conducting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in a modern concert hall in Los Angeles, is an unimaginable disconnect from the composer conducting the premiere two centuries years ago in Vienna.”

“In fact, [NEC President Tony] Woodcock wrote in a recent letter to trustees, overseers and staff members, the conservatory saw ‘from the earliest days’ that El Sistema was not a good fit with the conservatory. The president of another conservatory, Joseph Polisi of the Juilliard School, said New England’s decision made sense.”

“I am about to reveal my list, though as those who have been with me on this quest already know, I’ve dropped hints along the way. And the winner, the all-time great, is …”

“As a result of the rise of collaborative financing tools and social-networking technologies, the commissioning process has become more multifaceted.”

“In conjunction with its 30th anniversary, San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is not just issuing a new release, it is starting an entire new record label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions. The first release, scheduled for March 8, will showcase the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in a live 1995 recording of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été.”