“Here’s the super easy, headline statement: AI, or music that contains AI-created elements is absolutely eligible for entry and for consideration for Grammy nomination. Period,” Mason told The Associated Press. - Toronto Star (AP)
The two-armed robot, designed by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, made its debut at the National Theater of Korea, leading musicians in the country’s national orchestra. - CNN
Not that it's cheerful, mind you: Picture a Day Like This is about a mother whose child has died. Yet, after Benjamin's brilliant-but grim operas Into the Little Hill, Written on Skin, and Lessons in Love and Violence, this new piece is definitely a departure. - The New York Times
The Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center, opening next year in Dallas, is a joint project of the DSO and Tod Machover's Opera of the Future group at MIT's Media Lab. It will offer "STEAM-based learning activities that focus on dynamic music education" for grades 1-12. - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
Collective action by fans can create a sense of "belonging" within their community and lets them "express their identity". "However, I think something is changing more recently and we're seeing more isolated, disruptive, individual physical acts such as throwing items." - BBC
The music of today has grown up on the internet rather than adapting to it. Instead of using the infinite archive to show superior, selective taste, it takes influence with ambivalent abandon. - The Smart Set
In the latest bout of singers being pelted by concert fans, the country star Kelsea Ballerini was hit in the face by a bracelet thrown by someone in the audience at her Wednesday night show in Boise, Idaho. - Los Angeles Times
The music industry is at a tipping point. There is still time for the creators and businesses within it to help shape what comes next, but that window of opportunity is both small, and closing. - Music Industry Blog
"When it's 150 people standing crammed into a small room and you're closer to the musicians than you would ever be at the Festival Hall ... it does feel like it's this tightrope, and it has a sense of jeopardy and danger in the performance." - BBC
If you miss the sound quality and visual image qualities of the 1970s, or you're in an altered state, you're in luck. "Sober, none of the music was more interesting, effective, illuminated or illuminating in this space than it would have been elsewhere." - The New York Times
At the Kennedy Center: "Enter the organ through a hidden passageway tucked into a side office, descend down a ladder into its belly, and you find yourself surrounded by pipes — no two the same." - Washington Post
The Czech conductor seems to think he's found the ideal spot. "Opera is kind of a pinnacle of what is possible to achieve in music. But it’s a genre which, in practice, demands an incredible amount of compromise. Covent Garden is a fantastic exception." - The New York Times
As the storied competition unfolds this month for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine and became a pariah in the West, it is struggling to live up to its reputation. - The New York Times
We're not talking valveless Baroque trumpets or 16th-century sacbuts, mind you, but several of the CSO's musicians are serious collectors of trumpets and trombones from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And yes, they do use them in CSO concerts, and they do make a real difference. - Chicago Tribune
The study, which enrolled 192, is part of a growing body of research that points to the physical and mental health benefits of singing with others. Sing With Us linked singing in the choir to reduced stress hormones and increased cytokines, proteins that can boost the body’s ability to fight serious illness. - Washington Post
