Konstantin Shvedov composed his setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in 1913. It was kept secret through the Soviet years until Irina Shachneva's conducting professor gave it to her in 1985. She's now conducting the work's American premiere in San Francisco. - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
Much of modern pop could be described as a hook-delivery device: ‘Bad Romance’ by Lady Gaga or ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift, for example, are packed full of musical moments that stand out to the listener and are easily remembered. - Psyche
Antonio Pappano, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Sarah Connolly, Edward Gardner, and others offer suggestions from turning off the cell phones to incentivizing philanthropy to restoring music education to increasing support for local community ensembles. - The Guardian
Undoubtedly, there will be great guest conductors in our future. But Runnicles created his own two-decade golden age of Atlanta Symphony history, one that won’t soon be forgotten. - ArtsATL
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
