They provide an entry point for film enthusiasts to appreciate the power of a live orchestra, which can enhance the emotion and excitement of the moviegoing experience tremendously. And they’re significant revenue generators. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As anyone who has attended concerts or stage performances over the past year can tell you, digital programs are increasingly sprouting up as the heir apparent to the printed programs we’ve come to know and love. - Washington Post
"Only 11 percent of tickets are involved" and "most tickets are under $200" might not be the ironclad defense the company widely known as "Ticketbastard" thinks it is. - Variety
He trained as a cellist, used to skip French to go to the symphony, can dance, and said that "as a young Black man in Baltimore, a majority-Black city, 'I understand that my presence here is much more significant than it would be in other cities.'" - Baltimore Sun
The government of Wales is under fire for helping the supposedly environmentally concerned music festival buy a farm for the festival to use "as a base for its expansion." - The Guardian (UK)
"Those ushers who once carried proud armfuls of programs now wander the lobbies, outfitted (sometimes literally) with oversize QR codes, waiting to be scanned by passing patrons like a can of soup at the self-checkout." - Washington Post
Stefan Soltesz, an Austrian conductor, was near the end of the first act of Richard Strauss' The Silent Woman at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich when he fell from the podium. One opera director collaborator said, "In a world of dilettantes, he was the real thing." - The New York Times
The idea that “the unborn” are in any sense people has always been an appalling misrepresentation. Today, in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision stripping away decades’ worth of well-established abortion rights, “Frau” feels more problematic than ever. - San Francisco Chronicle
This roadhouse drama has pitted neighbor against neighbor in a remote area where lots are the size of baseball fields and police cars seldom patrol. One longtime resident describes the area as a ring of desert fiefdoms. - Los Angeles Times
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today, when there is so much more equality — and of course, there still could be and should be more — we could finally speak about music. - NPR
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in for the loss of hearing will vary. Either way, vibration communicated through touch offers a wealth of musical subtlety that researchers are now quantifying." - Nautilus
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic requirement that it may as well not matter. People don't win by being good at it, they win by being able to foot the bill." - Van
In 1965 the Pulitzer board rejected a unanimous recommendation from the music jury to award Duke Ellington a special citation for long-term achievement.” It was the second consecutive year that no Pulitzer for music was awarded. - The New York Times
Lincoln Center president Henry Timms: "In terms of volume, probably, the amount of classical music being presented hasn't changed much. The nature of it has changed, to some degree, though not fundamentally." New York Times classical critic Zachary Woolfe: "Uh-huh." - The New York Times
