http://www.artsjournal.com/music.shtml Copyright 2009 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:29:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/gustav_mahlers.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/gustav_mahlers.shtml music Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:13:19 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_king_of_pop.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_king_of_pop.shtml music Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:01:10 -0800 "[S]mall-scale commissions by individuals are becoming increasingly popular as new types of networks link composers with potential patrons. While many of these commissions arise out of private occasions, the resulting music is set to revitalize the concert repertoire for generations to come."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/surge_in_privat.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/surge_in_privat.shtml music Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:18:15 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/at_last_some_go.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/at_last_some_go.shtml music Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:57:04 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/a_grant_to_keep.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/a_grant_to_keep.shtml music Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:19 -0800 Allan Kozinn: "I hate the new Tully Hall. To me it is everything Lincoln Center and its enthusiasts insist it is not. I find it corporate, sterile, claustrophobic and as acoustically arid a hall as I've ever heard. Similarly, everything now being said about the old Tully rings false to me."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_newandimpro.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_newandimpro.shtml music Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:39:24 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/things_arent_re.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/things_arent_re.shtml music Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:28:33 -0800 "William Theisen, recently ousted as artistic director of the Skylight Opera Theatre, has agreed to return to direct 'The Barber of Seville,' 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Forever Plaid'" as well as one other show there next season. "Theisen said his decision to direct for the company in no way endorses his firing, carried out by the executive committee of the board of directors and managing director Eric Dillner."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/skylights_ouste.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/skylights_ouste.shtml music Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:44:02 -0800 "[Lyndon] Terracini is expected to bring stability to the national company and wants to mend bridges. He is keen to see OA's former music director Simone Young return as a guest conductor when he programs his first season in 2012. He also plans to introduce Wagner's Ring cycle into the repertory, commission new Australian work, forge closer ties with arts festivals and develop 'a family' of young composers."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/new_artistic_di.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/new_artistic_di.shtml music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:11 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/fabio_luisi_nam.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/fabio_luisi_nam.shtml music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:44:35 -0800 "The Metropolitan Opera and stagehands' union Local One have struck a deal, postponing a promised salary increase this summer in exchange for an extra year on the current contract, with the raise to come a year from now."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/met_opera_strik.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/met_opera_strik.shtml music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:31:56 -0800 The soul/hip-hop equivalent of Rolling Stone revealed its demise without warning on Tuesday. "In a memo to staff members announcing the closure, Steve Aaron, chief of the Vibe Media Group, wrote that for months, the company tried in vain to either find new investors or 'to restructure the huge debt on our small company.'"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/vibe_magazine_a.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/vibe_magazine_a.shtml music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:26:13 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/no_more_vibe_no.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/no_more_vibe_no.shtml music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:25:09 -0800 "The Skylight Opera Theatre continues to stagger under the weight of the public relations disaster in the wake of the firing of artistic director Bill Theisen on June 16. The social media, letter writing and e-mail campaigns to reverse that decision have maintained momentum." The company's only hope may rest in the man it fired, if he chooses to help it.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/to_survive_skyl.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/to_survive_skyl.shtml music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:51:06 -0800 "Western classical music, banned in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, has exploded in popularity. Just as its government is opening economically to the West, China is emerging as an international power in classical music. Millions study the piano and string instruments, and many of the world's most popular classical soloists are Chinese...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/western_classic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/western_classic.shtml music Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:16:48 -0800 On June 21st "New York joined more than three hundred cities--including Montevideo, Djibouti, Kabul, Hanoi, and Sydney--in celebrating Make Music, a global sonic bacchanal that takes place each year on the summer solstice. The ritual began in France, in 1982..."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/make_music_fest.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/make_music_fest.shtml music Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:14:03 -0800 "When the Arts & Science Council decides on the orchestra's grant sometime after Aug. 31, the reduction might be as much $1.75 million - a 90 percent cut. That would equal nearly a quarter of the orchestra's budget this season. For the orchestra, closing that gap while contending with the recession's other blows would be a superhuman task."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/funding_cuts_im.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/funding_cuts_im.shtml music Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:30:03 -0800 "Part of the thrill of being present at a great concert is knowing that it's happening in this place and time, among these people, and can never be experienced the same way again. It's both a celebration of singularity and a reminder that life is finite and lived in one direction only."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/the_live_concer.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/the_live_concer.shtml music Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:01:18 -0800 "Whereas music writing was once the province of a few hundred thousand fans and a handful of writers, usually in specialised magazines, it's now in the bookshop, the red-top and "quality" press, the blogosphere and beyond. The result too often suggests a very modern combination of abundance and short weight. To put it another way: how is it that writing about music now is everywhere, and yet seems to be nowhere at all?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/what_has_happen.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/what_has_happen.shtml music Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:39:28 -0800 "Before the curtain has even gone up, the proposed scheme to create a permanent new base for the Royal Opera House (ROH) in Manchester has run into trouble."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/royal_opera_hou_9.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/royal_opera_hou_9.shtml music Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:27:15 -0800 "Archaeologists Wednesday reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture." The instrument "was uncovered in sediments a few feet away from the carved figurine of a busty, nude woman, also around 35,000 years old."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/oldest_musical.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/oldest_musical.shtml music Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:57:35 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/louis_xvis_oper.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/louis_xvis_oper.shtml music Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:43:07 -0800 "I have the good fortune to be able to rely on a large organization, the Mariinsky Theatre, whose label is more a tool for influence than a business venture. So I can put together all the projects that I want, without constraint."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/gergiev_launche.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/gergiev_launche.shtml music Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:05:00 -0800 "Plans for a £100 million outpost of the Royal Opera House in the North West suffered a potentially serious setback yesterday when one of Manchester's leading arts complexes said a new opera house in the city would 'destroy' it. Rod Aldridge, chairman of the trustees at The Lowry, said that the proposed venture would be 'bad for the city, bad for the arts and bad for the taxpayer'."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/royal_opera_hou_8.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/royal_opera_hou_8.shtml music Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:10:09 -0800 "Officials of the Skylight Opera Theatre came to the Journal Sentinel Wednesday, to comment on the company's financial condition and the hotly controversial firing of artistic director Bill Theisen and other[s] last week. Much more to come on this," but one thing they said was that "[n]o one dreamed, when [managing director Eric Dillner] was hired a little over a year ago, that he would take on the duties of artistic director."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/skylight_says_e.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/skylight_says_e.shtml music Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:42:54 -0800