It’s hard to figure out how many people are making a middle-class living on music streaming, but I note that you don’t earn the minimum wage on Spotify until you generate more than 3 million streams per year. - Ted Gioia
Sure, ABBA are doing it now, but what's next - recreated Liszt concerts? (We'd probably need video for that - but who knows what the future may hold?) - The Observer (UK)
His band Aphrodite's Child created "1972’s astonishing double concept album 666, which delivered 77 minutes of wildly experimental music that touched on jazz, proto-metal, prog and stuff that still defies explication." - The Guardian (UK)
Orchestra director Iolanta Pryshlyak, who also coordinates a flow of medical and humanitarian supplies, said, "War makes your heart like a stone. ... But music can soften it again." - The New York Times
The English composer, now remembered primarily as a firebrand suffragette, and librettist Henry Brewster wrote this story (of Cornish villagers who survive by plundering shipwrecks) in French. But it was produced, with cuts, first in German, then in English, then not at all. This summer sees the original version's premiere. - The Guardian
She came to prominence as co-founder of string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, moved to a solo career, and now directs the Silkroad Ensemble, the world-music group founded by Yo-Yo Ma. But she trained as an opera singer, and her first opera is now premiering at Spoleto USA. - The New York Times
We begin with the hypothesis that, due to the rate of growth and development of A.I. technology, #resistanceisfutile. Which is to say that computer-composed music is here, and the conversation needs to change. - NewMusicBox
Not all of these women are forgotten: Clara Rockmore (the first virtuoso of the theremin) and Pauline Oliveros are remembered, and Wendy Carlos, Eliane Radigue, and Laurie Anderson are still with us. But there were also Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Jacqueline Nova ... - BBC
The Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which will be the home of the Czech Philharmonic and the FOK Prague Symphony, will have auditoriums of 1,800, 700 and 500 seats (acoustics by Nagata, Yasuhisa Toyota's firm) as well as a major hub for the Czech capital's public library system. - Prague Morning
A year and a half after the school acquired the management agency Opus 3 Artists, it has done the same with Pentatone Music, an audiophile classical-music label launched in the Netherlands in 2001 by execs who left Philips Classics after it was acquired by Universal. - San Francisco Classical Voice
“This is an excellent moment to think about why we attach the term ‘greatness’ to Russian, but not Ukrainian, culture. So why do we only know composers who we consider to be ‘great Russian’ composers?” - The New York Times
Simon Woods: “Redefining the canon” strikes me as a fundamentally pointless endeavor, as it still allows that there is some kind of objective set of values available to us that can help decide what’s in and what’s out at any one time. - Medium
WRR — at 101, the oldest radio station in Texas — is owned by the City of Dallas, which wants out of the radio business. Pending City Council approval, WRR's license and operations will be transferred to KERA, which will maintain the station's classical music format and staff. - D Magazine (Dallas)
One of the key promises is that “all allegations of sexual harassment, assault and violence will be taken seriously, acted upon promptly and investigated”. - The Guardian
