"In a forthcoming book, Why Beethoven, Norman Lebrecht presents evidence that the Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor has been known as Für Elise (For Elise) purely due to a misreading of the dedication on the now-lost 1810 manuscript." - The Observer (UK)
‘Nothing,’ Beethoven once said, ‘is more intolerable than having to admit to yourself your own errors.’ In the Pastoral he lets us into that furtive admission. - The Spectator
Mahler's Fifth is "a wide-open work, ripe for individual interpretation and impeccably suiting a film that doesn’t provide easy answers." - The Guardian (UK)
Performers have to meet all kinds of requirements for visas, ranging from the precise addresses where they're staying to financial statements to tickets home - on the same airline. Even then, they're regularly denied access to European venues and tours. - The Observer (UK)
The arts presenter removed the Philly Pops as a resident company, "shutting the group out of Verizon Hall and removing customers’ ability to buy Pops tickets from its website." - Philadelphia Inquirer
Noisenights are run via a crowdfunding model—events are announced, artists and venues secured, and when audience members buy tickets, they are helping to create a fully-funded event. Each of the 17 noisenights so far has sold out. - Van
"(The venue) has told the Philly Pops that unless it immediately comes up with rent from its just-finished holiday run, as well as advance payments for upcoming concerts in February, the Pops will have to vacate the Kimmel and will no longer be allowed to perform there." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
While most US opera companies have returned to performing live and pulled back from the streaming video they offered at the height of COVID, a few — notably Experiments in Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Opera Philadelphia — have continued, even trying operatic series with showrunners and writers' rooms. - San Francisco Classical Voice
The hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee will take place Jan. 24, the panel announced late Tuesday, and address concerns that Ticketmaster’s market control over the ticketing industry has done a great disservice to consumers. - Huffington Post
In addition to speaking out regularly in the media, the 38-year-old native of Kyiv devotes time to raising money for relief efforts and gathering generators, stoves, and the like to ship to her compatriots, who regularly lose electricity, and sometimes their homes and possessions, to Russian missiles. - The New York Times
The festival’s powerful streak of commissioning new music — a roster of more than 50 pieces both large and small since 2006 — is largely a function of Ellen Primack’s hard work and powers of persuasion. - San Francisco Chronicle
The recent struggles and remarkable late-career concerts of these two men will always mark for me the passing from the scene of their generation of artists — a generation that has loomed over the musical landscape, and stubbornly refused to cede it for decades. - The New York Times
"Arts Council England said it would invest national lottery funding in the company until March 2024 to 'sustain a programme of work at the ENO's home, the London Coliseum, and at the same time help the ENO start planning for a new base outside London by 2026.'" - The Guardian
Dane Lam, a Chinese-Australian who currently holds positions with Opera Queensland and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra in China, is the first music director at the HSO since it came out of Bankruptcy 11 years ago. - Yahoo! (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
Starting in July, Kraemer, currently music director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will succeed Carlos Miguel Prieto, who is leaving New Orleans after 17 years to take the podium at the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh. - AP
