Music is a sphere where young performers and composers tend to look to their teachers and bosses as mentors. This can give rise to all sorts of power abuses, especially in the cut-throat entertainment world where everybody is hustling for the next job. - The Guardian
"If opera in the form that its creators imagine it becomes for toffs, that is nothing to do with opera itself. It is absolutely extrinsic to the art form, and precisely the result of neglect, and underfunding, and starving of resources, and shame, and embarrassment, and lack of care." - The Guardian
Lord Lloyd-Webber said he wanted his new coronation anthem to reflect a "joyful occasion". A gospel choir will sing and there will be Greek Orthodox music in memory of the King's father, Prince Philip. The music will have a traditional tone with pieces from classical composers. - BBC
As my generation grew up, new age seemed a bit like a lost world—a faerie realm we were promised but never got to go to. Although it’s based on familiar pop structures, the songwriting has an origami quality of folding and unfolding back on itself, creating pockets and planes. - The Atlantic
When Teresita Gómez was 3, a piano teacher let her watch "from a distance — while was teaching the little white girls who were her students. ... At night, when her father walked around doing his rounds, she went along with him, playing on all the classroom pianos." - NPR
Harry’s House is simply just fun pop music at the perfect time. We are coming out of a pandemic and are in a cost of living crisis – we need some easy and joyful listening. - The Conversation
Unlike its future-oriented counterpart on the West Coast, the New York Philharmonic is always looking back to its glory days under Mahler, Toscanini, Bernstein, and Boulez. It’s worth noting that many conductors have left the post frustrated, exhausted, or embittered. - The New Yorker
This technology “is generating infinite music that isn’t actually composed by anybody, and that’s a terrible, scary, awful way of thinking about where music could go,” says composer Tod Machover. “I mean, really, it’s the worst kind of elevator music.” - Washington Post
In what seems to be a cross between an Anna Deavere Smith interview-based theater piece and Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, composer Eugene Birman has layered original music with candid quotes given by Russians in darkened booths. The title is Russia: Today. - The New York Times
The Carnegie performance was added last spring. The hall’s leaders heard about the tour and thought that hosting the orchestra would help show solidarity with Ukraine. - The New York Times
This “Lohengrin,” so radical for the Met at the time, anticipated today’s broader range of directorial approaches there — like Willy Decker’s starkly symbolic “La Traviata” and Simon Stone’s contemporary-America “Lucia di Lammermoor.” - The New York Times
"I know I am expected to say this illness changed my life. No. Things that were very important to me as a musician before are still as important. Things that were not important are still not important. I can't say I feel perfectly, but I feel well enough." - AP
By stepping into a conservatory, we are encouraged to maintain packed-out schedules, work beyond the point of exhaustion, and have pristine social media accounts showcasing our highlight reel of repertoire in order to justify our choice in career. - I Care If You Listen
While getting the sound of the orchestral hall right was a heavy lift, the architects and designers also had to contend with another problem in the Lincoln Center's history. - CBC
It seems Pensacola Christian College, where the group had sung before without incident, got wind that some members of the sextet are gay. The Singers say, "This is the first time that anything other than bad weather, the pandemic, or war has caused a cancellation in our 55-year history." - Musical America
