Peter Whelan, a keyboard player, bassoonist, singer and conductor who currently directs the much-acclaimed Irish Baroque Orchestra, begins his initial term at Philharmonia Baroque in the 2026-27 season. He succeeds Richard Egarr, who resigned in 2024, and Music Director Emeritus Nicholas McGegan (1985-2020). - San Francisco Classical Voice
The paper found that the process was better on the brain without tech tools: “internal attention and semantic processing during creative ideation” was highest for the writers who used neither Google nor ChatGPT. - LitHub
What happens if, or when, the Emancipation Proclamation is “lost” because it promotes diversity, equity and inclusion? The Codex Azcatitlan disappears because it describes a history that doesn’t place European Americans at the forefront? - Washington Post
The years between 1900-1914 have appropriately been called by historian Philipp Blom as the “vertigo years.” To find your footing in this dizzying period so often meant jumping into the unknown or, as many did, sleepwalking through it and hoping things would sort themselves out. - Novum
“Authors are reportedly being hit by negative reviews on the book review site Goodreads before proof copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.” - The Bookseller (UK)
While purchaser Skydance has the right to approve any major contracts Paramount enters into before the acquisition is complete, “gun-jumping” — actively taking part or interfering in negotiations — is against federal securities law. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone argue that Skydance has seriously jumped the gun. - Bloomberg (Yahoo!)
“The not-for-profit network … which reached around 100 million homes in 2015, is now down to 51 million households. The contraction has led to a significant loss in revenue for C-SPAN, which has never sold advertising. C-SPAN took in $46.3 million in 2024, down 37% from $73 million in 2015.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
“Artists were reaching out to us asking us if they would have one last chance to perform,” said executive director SK Kerastas. “We wanted to create a situation where we could say yes to all of those asks, and so we came upon this idea of doing a marathonic performance.” - WBEZ (Chicago)
The pieces, for solo piano, were jotted down by the composer in the sketchbooks he carried with him everywhere. The recording, by pianist Alexandre Tharaud, is released this Friday (June 27), ahead of the centennial of Satie’s death on July 1. - The Guardian
The effort, publicly launched on Wednesday at Tate Modern in London, has already raised £43 million of its £150 million goal. Meanwhile, the Tate board of trustees approved, for this fiscal year, a second consecutive deficit budget. - Press Association UK (Yahoo!)
The three-month series, called Powerhouse: International, will take place at a former electricity station alongside Brooklyn’s notorious Gowanus Canal, whose neighborhood is gentrifying. The programming features the sort of high-powered cutting-edge work which used to be the mainstay of the Next Wave Festival at nearby BAM. - The New York Times
The orchestra is performing in the Republic for the first time in 11 years. More notably, it’s the first time they’re playing with Zimerman in almost 30 years; the pianist has long refused to perform in the United States. - The Korea Herald
The developments in technology over the past 20 years have made it so that composers today can single-handedly (if they choose) record, mix, master and release their music – using a near-limitless combination of real and sampled instruments – at the very moment they are writing it, and effectively say, ‘look, this is what I meant’. - Gramophone
“Sherman was a squeaky-clean regular on the covers of Tiger Beat and Sixteen magazines, often with hair over his eyes and a choker on his neck. His face was printed on lunchboxes, cereal boxes and posters that hung on the bedroom walls of his adoring fans.” - AP
The 37-foot-tall living sculpture, created in 2000, is designed to nurture more than 50,000 flowering plants and will be seeded in August with the hope that it will be fully established by April, when architect Peter Zumthor’s new poured concrete building is scheduled to open to the public. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
