The music created to accompany and enhance the quests, missions, adventures, and world-building that unfolds in games doesn’t stay in the digital realm. “It’s weird to say, but the new American Songbook that kids want to play comes from this game music." - San Francisco Classical Voice
The agreement, which covers basic theatrical motion picture and basic television motion picture contracts, gives musicians streaming residuals for the first time, as well as protections against artificial intelligence, according to AFM. - The Hollywood Reporter
The artifacts are sacred wood and stone altar tablets, or tabots, that were stolen by British soldiers during the Battle of Maqdala. The items have never been on public display. - ARTnews
Carlo Fuortes, who turned around the disastrous finances at the Rome Opera and then headed Italy's state broadcaster, RAI, was appointed superintendent of Florence's debt-ridden opera house. Then he got a 16-month jail term for the death of a cleaner who fell off a ladder at the Rome Opera. - Gramilano (Milan)
Both the Concertgebouw and the Chicago Symphony are orchestras at the very highest level, and they deserve a conductor’s full attention. The definition of a music director has undergone a mutation in recent decades: such doubling- and tripling-up of appointments has become commonplace. - The New Yorker
Launched in 2016, Italy's 18App was the oldest such program in Europe, and all 18-year-olds were eligible. Replacing 18App are the Carta Cultura, with a household income ceiling of €35,000, and the Carta del Merito, for those with high grades in the last year of high school. - Publishing Perspectives
It’s reportedly because of audiobooks. Spotify added audiobooks to its service last year on a trial basis. The price increase is how the streaming service will pay for letting subscribers access those books. - Gizmodo
"The closing of the distributor sent shockwaves throughout the entire independent publishing community, as it came with little warning. … SPD provided distribution to about 400 publishers, including a large number of literary presses." - Publishers Weekly
Two hundred musical artists, including Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, and the estate of Frank Sinatra call on AI developers, technology companies, platforms, and digital music services to stop using AI to "infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists." - Ars Technica
KWRV in Sun Valley, launched in 1993 with funds raised locally, aired classical music programming from MPR's St. Paul headquarters. (MPR also has outlets in South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan.) The station was purchased by Boise State Public Radio, which will make only minor changes to its format. - Inside Radio
As the chief curator, Conaty said she plans to focus on Latino and Indigenous artists, who remain underrepresented in the Whitney’s collection, and invest in emerging talent. But she also intends to slow down the pace of collecting. “Gifts are not free,” she said. - The New York Times
"According to the dancers’ union contract, the temperature must be just so to reduce injuries. The floor must have the correct level of springiness. Breaks are mandatory; the length of rehearsals is carefully capped. Certain ballets are still under copyright protection, meaning that (various conditions must be met)." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An attorney for collector Uthman Khatib says that the paintings — including works attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Natalia Goncharova, and collectively worth more than €100 million — were stolen from a storage facility Khatib rented in Germany. - ARTnews
"In a career spanning (over) 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown. Regarding subject and theme, he pogoed from sex to metaphysics to serial killers to psychology; he had a way of collapsing high art and jokes that aimed much lower." - The New York Times
"The playfully erudite author, whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, … was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and plot." - AP
