The musicians, who voted 97.4% in favor of the authorization, have been without a contract since July and have been negotiating with management since April. Their main complaint is being paid roughly 25% less than their peer orchestras in Canada while living in one of the world’s most expensive housing markets. - CBC
Base salary will increase by 12% from $92,811 to $101,350 over the next three years. The musicians’ union and orchestra management described the deal as the “most financially ambitious contract in more than a decade.” - The Baltimore Banner
In its first decade, Pandora users had created eight billion stations, logged 74 billion hours of listening, and rated 55 billion songs with its signature thumbs up and down buttons. - Fast Company
The case, with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment as lead plaintiffs, targeted the Archive's Great 78 Project, an initiative to digitize, and make available for free online, more than 400,000 fragile shellac recordings made before the arrival of vinyl records in 1948. The labels sought damages for copyright infringement. - Rolling Stone (MSN)
Marianna Brilla and Lisa Paglin spent years in Italy studying old vocal treatises and historical recordings to find the roots of bel canto technique. Now they run the New Voice Studio, where they combat the opera world’s obsession with power and volume, teaching instead “spontaneity, beauty, and freedom.” - El País (Spain) (in English)
The agreement, retroactive to Nov. 24, 2024 and ending on Nov. 20, 2027, maintains the starting weekly base salary of $3,450, with biannual increases which rise to $3,960 (making an annual minimum salary of $205,920) in the last six months of the contract. - Riff Magazine (San Francisco)
Israel’s recent participation has been a divisive issue in Europe and its broadcasting community ever since Israel began its military campaign in Gaza Strip in late 2023. - Deadline
It sounds like boot camp. An 89.5 hour workweek. Back to back 14 hour days. Overtime pay a rarity (and lack thereof legally sanctioned). Working in a warehouse where temperatures exceeded 100. Bullying. - Broadway World
The whole place exudes the ethos of Pärt, whose music demands love and dedication from its interpreters yet almost nothing of its listeners, offering a timeless sound redolent of both the Renaissance and modern Minimalism, and capable of touching casual audiences and avant-gardists alike. - The New York Times
Sadly, “if you put one of the new tapes into an old-fashioned Walkman, it won’t produce any meaningful sound, because the DNA cassette doesn’t use the magnetic signals of its predecessor.” - New Scientist (Archive Today)
“In the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England digitized the sheet music collection of Austen and her family, more and more people are turning to the music for new perspectives on her life and work.” - The New York Times
“The truth is that the vulgar poptimist ideal of letting people like what they like is also the preferred state of affairs for capitalism — cultural value collapses into market value, so that the amount of money something makes is the only necessary judgment of its worth.” - Jude Doyle
“Despite music in general having long since assimilated the daring qualities of Gymnopédie No. 1, the original piece still catches our ears — in its subtle way — whenever it comes on.” - Open Culture
“'In light of role as the chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, we are unable to provide sufficient clarity about his attitude to the genocidal regime in Tel Aviv,' organizers said in a statement.” - CBC
