When activating people’s innate artistry, teaching artists can guide that energy toward many goals. My analysis of employment in the field finds seven major goals teaching artists are hired to deliver. - Symphony
The State Department ran a major cultural diplomacy program during the mid-20th century, sending some of America's most prominent performers on overseas tours. Best remembered today are visits to Communist Eastern Europe, but the program was active in Latin America as well — with Copland as its leading light. - San Francisco Classical Voice
“Most of the airlines do not have a policy for musical instruments,” he said. “And when there is a policy sometimes it is not applied consistently.” - ClassicFM
The damage that Spotify is doing to the music ecosystem is well known. But it seems they are only getting started. Two months from now it will already be much worse. Either musicians force their way into the decision making for streaming, or the corporations controlling it will force musicians out. - Dadadrummer
The current crisis at the company is hardly the first: ENO has faced severe financial difficulties repeatedly over its history. Yet the government funding cuts ENO faces now, along with orders to relocate out of London, are more daunting than anything it's ever faced. - Financial Times
"The orchestra first visited China in September 1973, marking a thaw in U.S.-China relations just as the two nations began normalizing ties. … Fourteen of its members (are) traveling to China, including 73-year old Davyd Booth, a violinist who was on the orchestra’s first tour to the country ago." - AP
The mobile stage will move throughout different neighborhoods that are “corridors of opportunity.” There are six under-invested areas in Charlotte, which are designated by the city as corridors of opportunity. - Charlotte Observer
This isn’t your grandfather’s orchestra concert, but it’s not a hip-hop show either — it’s something in between, with both parties adjusting their usual style. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Concerts are concerts; OK, the people are coming, and they are enjoying it. But then, what are we doing in wider terms? What are we doing for schools, for education, for deprived people, for mental health, for everything else?" - Van
"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off electricity during any performance if there is any unwanted incident. We hope that with stricter guidelines, foreign artists can adhere to the local culture." - The Guardian
The deals that Live Nation offers artists to land their events, and what restrictions those agreements might include, are among the practices the Justice Department is probing. It is also exploring whether the company’s agreements restrict venues’ ability to work with other promoters or ticket services. - The Wall Street Journal
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market research executive Christopher Davis; and libretto by their cousin, writer and professor Thulani Davis. Zachary Woolfe talks to the three of them. - The New York Times
Ara Guzelimian, who grew up in Los Angeles and now leads the Ojai Music Festival nearby, described California’s classical music culture as “the lingering positive presence of the pioneers heading West and looking to escape a kind of conformity.” - The New York Times
That triggered a subversive thought: why can’t all solo recitals be like this? Why won’t Carnegie Hall enhance its pianists with works of Pissaro or Picasso from the Metropolitan Museum? And why can’t we have live video close-ups of hands, face, hairstyle and legs in the recapitulation section of every over-long sonata? - The Critic
