"The Met sold 66% of tickets during the season that ended Saturday, up from 61% during the 2021-22 season. Sales were lower than budgeted because of a cyberattack in mid-December. … The average age of its single-ticket buyers, which comprise 75% of sales, decreased to 44 from 50." - AP
Three protestors from the British group Just Stop Oil used air horns and glitter cannons to interrupt Thursday's performance of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Glyndebourne Festival. They were escorted away within one minute and the performance resumed after 20 minutes. - The Guardian
In a letter to Culture Minister Lord Parkinson, Mr Rotheram and Liverpool City Council leader Liam Robinson said it would be "an honour" to bring the English National Opera (ENO) to Liverpool, a city with "an unmatched musical heritage". - BBC
"Geoffrey Robson, who joined the orchestra in the fall of 2008 as associate conductor and a full-time member of the violin section, has been shepherding the orchestra through its interregnum since the departure of former music director and conductor Philip Mann at the end of the 2018-19 season." - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The turning point came with Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, where dialogue editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise the Beatles' voices and separate them from background noises, and even their own instruments, to create "clean" audio. - BBC
If the doubt over the actual inception of el Sistema, as it was conceptually communicated to the public, isn’t telling enough, the most damning measure of its current irrelevance is the indeterminacy over the date and time of death. Its passing was not noticed, nor was it mourned. - Jonathan Govias
"The Recording Academy has added three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, it announced today: Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album, and Best Pop Dance Recording. Last year's new additions included songwriter of the year and song for social change." - Variety
"Nairobi's bustling Kenyatta market is an unlikely place to hear classical music. Yet playing today in front of stalls where butchers roast meat and hairdressers compete over heads to braid is a very surprising busker. … Ma's pop-up performance typifies his visit in the city over the last week." - The Guardian
Toronto's Ludwig Van is bought by ZoomerMedia. The publicly traded company run by Canadian media mogul Moses Znaimer is the pioneer behind CityTV, MuchMusic, Bravo!, Fashion Television, CP24, the New Classical FM and countless other brands. - Ludwig Van
H+H was exploring the possibility that Handel, one of the bedrocks of its repertoire, had held investments in trans-Atlantic trading companies that participated in and profited from the sale of enslaved Africans. - Boston Globe
Tucked in the bustling neighborhood, Mendelssohn’s has become a gathering place for Portland’s musicians to sip on themed drinks, sing ballads from the high stage and meet other people interested in classical music. - The Oregonian
