Lawrence Edelson founded American Lyric Theater in 2005, building a model organization for presenting and fostering new opera. He also recently concluded a successful eight-year stint as artistic and general director of Opera Saratoga in upstate New York. He will stay on at ALT as artistic and general director in his new role at COT. - WFMT
“By most criteria, other than audience attendance, the company is in significantly better shape than it’s been in its 38-year history." - The New York Times
She's commissioned an extraordinary amount of new repertory for the flute (in all its ranges, from piccolo to contrabass), her colleagues are thrilled by her virtuosity and delighted by her generosity and enthusiasm, and she draws so many young listeners she worries about attracting older ones. - The New York Times
"Chad Smith, who ... traces some of his most formative musical experiences to Boston's Symphony Hall, was named Monday as the next president and CEO of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is the second time in recent years the BSO has sought talent from the LA Philharmonic." - MSN (The Boston Globe)
Fake streaming is an industry-wide problem that goes beyond AI-made music. A French study found that between 1 and 3 percent of all music streamed across various popular platforms in France in 2021 was detected to have been streamed by bots, accounting for an estimated 1 to 3 billion fake streams. - Wired
While the United States offered myriad opportunities, it also had its challenges. Classical music in the hinterlands was a relatively new phenomenon and the couple could not depend on finding venues on the road, especially in relatively small communities, that could easily provide two matched grand pianos. - Nightingale's Sonata
This is twisted. A variety of cities and governmental departments "are using an art form once thought to carry humanity’s highest ideals to hide the system’s most vulnerable from view." - Boston Globe
"It was so good to mine the musical riches of Cyprus, Moldova, Albania and Australia, ... and it seems that on a Venn diagram of Radio 3 listeners and Eurovision fans, there is more crossover than you might expect." - Classical Music
"Imagine you have no and that you were just as interested in music and pop culture as young people have always been and wanted a place that was a one-stop shop for that kind of news and information, but also politics and social issues." - Los Angeles Times
"Behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such as Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran or Little Simz, hides a small group of hitmakers, co-writing hugely commercial songs and rarely making headlines. These are the music industry’s secret weapons." - The Guardian (UK)
How could Britain host (for Ukraine) with a smart, cheeky song and yet score so low? Mae Muller "kept up the UK's momentum of sending non-terrible songs to the contest. Some of the acts that placed ahead of her were objectively worse." Wow, high praise. - BBC
The conductor, coming to New York in 2026, has many recordings. The NYT says, "he comes off as a very capable musician, but one who, as of yet, has not acquired the flair for details and the brilliance of imagination that marks a conductor as extraordinary." - The New York Times
The singer, "who previously triumphed in 2012 with Euphoria, narrowly beat Finland’s Kaarija after the public and jury votes were combined." She's the first woman, and the second person, to win twice. - Irish Times
Do these fans love Eurovision because they enjoy the catharsis of the unabashed release of “bad taste”? Or because they enjoy feeling superior to those people (and nations) who genuinely engage with the drama of the competition? This is a side of cool’s ironic detachment that celebrates disdain for others. - The Conversation
The 2023-24 season for the orchestra, founded to fill the void left by the now-closed San Antonio Symphony, will feature two performances of one program each month from September through June. Among the conductors on the roster, all guests, are Sarah Ioannides. Jeffrey Kahane, and Lina González-Granados. - San Antonio Report
