What’s next in classical music? Kyle MacMillan suspects the “next big thing is going to come in how classical music – in some cases, all music – is perceived and understood. Already causing a huge transformation is our unprecedented ability to log on to Amazon.com and buy recordings of music from virtually anywhere in the world and any period of the past 1,000 years. This widespread availability of recordings and the accompanying reach of the Internet are helping spread classical music well beyond its usual Western confines.”
Tag: 08.22.04
Remembering Elmer Bernstein
The death of film music composer Elmer Bernstein marks the end of an era. “Over the years, Bernstein worked with many of the greatest directors and, with a fair number of them, he collaborated several times, including three films with Martin Scorsese. But he became increasingly disillusioned with the ignorance and crude commercialism of Hollywood’s approach to music.”
Harvey Weinstein As Moby Dick
A new book about producer Harvey Weinstein details “with some appalled glee the food stains on Weinstein’s shirts, the thuggish threats to journalists, the thrown telephones, the impossible demands to directors, the bullying of staff. He talks of Weinstein as an ‘artist of anger’ and as ‘the 800lb gorilla in the corner’. Really, though, he is his Moby Dick, his white whale. No matter how often the journalist seems to have harpooned his target, Harvey keeps emerging from the deep, clutching a contract and a side order of fries.”