Lincoln Center's Summer Festival to Focus on Civic Bonds
Summer for the City festival at Lincoln Center focuses on community, civic engagement, and diversity, featuring participatory events and promoting broader genres to appeal to a younger audience. [ more ]
Klaus Makela, 28-Year-Old Finnish Conductor, to Lead Chicago Symphony
Klaus Makela, a 28-year-old Finnish conductor, will become the next music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, making him the youngest maestro in the ensemble's history.
Makela's appointment is a testament to his charisma, clarity, and rapid rise in classical music, with his age not being a relevant factor in his view. [ more ]
Kaija Saariaho's Luminous Music Was a Personal Invitation
The history of classical music is a history of creators of distinct originality.Its evolution has always happened through the work of visionary individuals and their ability to expand our understanding of the world through their works.These artists widen our horizons, invent, search, open doors and create paths for others.
Mais Oui! Smuin Celebrates the Chansons of Pink Martini in Season Finale - San Francisco Bay Times
Photos by Chris Hardy Smuin Contemporary Ballet will close its 29th season with a program for the lovers!From Amy Seiwert's playful world premiere set to French music, to an evocative Michael Smuin work returning to the stage after two decades, Dance Series 2 is packed with fun, flirtatiousness, and joie de vivre.
For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual
PALM DESERT, Calif.Jean-Yves, when did you start playing the piano?Michael Feinstein asked from the stage of the McCallum Theater here on a recent Friday night.I started when I was 5 years old, said the star pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, whose instrument was interlocked with Feinstein's for their cabaret-style show, Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More?
La Seine Musicale a symbol with meaning and function says Shigeru Ban
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban explains how his egg-shaped music auditorium acts as a western gateway to Paris in the last instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim.The video features La Seine Musicale, a music complex that houses a large multipurpose concert hall and a smaller auditorium.
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Where to Watch the National Symphony Orchestra for Free This Weekend - Washingtonian
The National Symphony Orchestra will continue its free concert series "In Your Neighborhood" this weekend in DC's Ward 5.The program, which began in 2010, was created to bring the NSO into DC communities that have been historically excluded from the arts, NSO's community engagement manager Xavier Joseph says.
ECHO Rising Stars / Faye MacCalman... at the Glasshouse (formerly Sage Gateshead)
The European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) selects outstanding classical musicians as ECHO Rising Stars for support and development.
Júlia Pusker, Mathis Stier, and Sean Shibe are three Rising Stars who have already achieved great success. They each express their taste and personality through eclectic music selections. [ more ]
Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer: Reggaeton must have something that I just don't understand'
That guava tree in their garden wasn't just an ordinary tree.Natalia Lafourcade's parents had just split up and her mother needed money urgently.Then, that tropical tree with its simple, oval leaves began to bear unusual fruits.We had little money and the tree kept us going.Every summer, there were enormous quantities of guavas growing We had to lay out a net to catch them all.
I have a routine.I listen to jazz music every evening.Ambient music every afternoon.And classical music every morning.This is the background soundtrack to my working life.¹Given the latter, I should be right in the wheelhouse for the new Apple Music Classical app, which just went live last night.
Joe Chialo: Ex-metal singer becomes Berlin's culture senator DW 04/27/2023
Joe Chialo is relatively new to politics but is set to assume the high-profile role of Minister for Culture in Berlin.He replaces Left Party (Die Linke) politician and former deputy mayor of Berlin, Klaus Lederer.The reshuffling of positions is a result of the new coalition government agreement reached between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD).
New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight
A new group of Mission Community Connector ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.As we've slowly come out of the pandemic, it is much-discussed that downtown San Francisco has seen a severe downturn in foot traffic.
MAD wraps China Philharmonic Concert Hall in translucent facade
The translucent, wavy facade of China Philharmonic Concert Hall by MAD is revealed in these construction photos, which capture the building nearing completion in Beijing.Located next to the Workers Stadium, China Philharmonic Concert Hall will become the first permanent residence for the country's philharmonic orchestra.
Can You Guess These 10 Wacky Words From the Scripps Spelling Bee?
In music, this type of leaning grace note clashes with the melody just enough to create dissonance, then sweet resolution.It is famous for its capacity to give you goosebumps: Imagine Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony, or the opening of Adele's Someone Like You.The word is derived from appoggiare, an Italian verb meaning to lean, which in turn comes from the Greek root pod, meaning feet, along with podium, pedestal and podiatrist providers of support.
This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are?You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page.Terence Blanchard?Oh, is he doing jazz now?My agent was asked this some years ago at a breakfast meeting over bagels and not-that-great coffee near the New York Hilton Midtown.
Ian Bostridge on Music's Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity
Spring this year has been a particular joy for touring singers like me.The cloud of Covid seems to have evaporated: Restrictions have been lifted, audiences have (nervously) returned and the prospect of being stranded in foreign parts with a positive test is gone, not to mention the diminishing threat of serious or voice-impacting illness.
Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra
Jonathon Heyward, the rising young conductor who this fall will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, has been tapped to lead Lincoln Center's summer ensemble, a reimagined version of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the center announced on Wednesday.Heyward, 30, will start a three-year contract with Lincoln Center next year.
Review: Thanks to Chick Corea, the Trombone Is a Philharmonic Star
There are not exactly a wealth of great concertos written for the trombone, that largely unheralded stalwart of the brass section.(Insert sad trombone sound here.)If anyone is going to change this state of affairs, it's Joseph Alessi, the principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic.He's an idol of legions of brass players for his rich tone, exemplary phrasing and virtuosic precision.
The Bassist Carlos Henriquez Covers All the Latin and Jazz Bases
As he worked his way through a rice bowl at a Japanese restaurant near Columbus Circle in Manhattan on a recent afternoon, the bassist, composer and arranger Carlos Henriquez reflected on the long history of Latino musicians in the jazz world.In the 1920s, there was a bassist and tuba player called Ralph Escudero who used to play with W.C. Handy and Fletcher Henderson, he said, arching his manicured eyebrows for emphasis.
The Maestro Wore Blue: Bringing Pizazz to the Pit at the Met
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the Metropolitan Opera's music director, dressed in a blazing sapphire jacket and trim black pants, stood before a mirror backstage on a recent afternoon and smiled.Oh my God, it's so good, he said, waving his baton.I love it so much.There were three days until the opening of Puccini's La Boheme, and Nezet-Seguin, surrounded by a small team of tailors, designers and assistants, was offering feedback on his attire, which had been designed by the Met's costume shop.
In its ninth and final season, 'Endeavour' fulfills its mission to 'Inspector Morse'
Endeavour a prequel to the Inspector Morse series ran for nearly a decade.Its ninth and final season is airing on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery!Above, Shaun Evans as Endeavour Morse Mammoth Screen and MASTERPIECE We're living in hard times for originality.These days, both studio execs and audiences appear to mistrust anything they don't already know.
10 Jazz and Classical Performances to Catch in the Bay Area This Summer | KQED
In this summer's most anticipated new work, the story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's rollercoaster romance gets a creative treatment by Boonville-based composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz.Set three years after Kahlo's death, and weeks before Rivera's own, the opera imagines Rivera (Alfredo Daza) pining to see his wife Frida (Daniela Mack) one last time.
Trailblazing opera star Grace Bumbry dies at age 86
Grace Bumbry, in a 1963 portrait.Erich Auerbach/Getty Images Opera star Grace Bumbry has died at the age of 86.The celebrated singer, who led an illustrious, jet-setting career, broke the color barrier as the first Black artist to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival.Bumbry died May 7 in a Vienna hospital, according to her publicist.
'Whoever holds power, it's going to corrupt them,' says 'Tar' director Todd Field
Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tar in director Todd Field's Tar.Focus Features In the Oscar-nominated film Tar, Cate Blanchett plays a conductor who's risen to the top of the male-dominated world of classical music.Lydia Tar is brilliant and charismatic, but questions have been raised about whether she uses her power to take sexual advantage of young women she is mentoring.
The lessons of Wayne Shorter, engine of imagination
Wayne Shorter, photographed while performing with pianist Herbie Hancock in Paris on Sept. 4, 2007.Patrick Kovarik/AFP via Getty Images Composer, saxophonist and devout Buddhist Wayne Shorter died last week at age 89.His visionary composition and improvisation shaped not only 20th-century jazz but also pop, world and classical music.
Father's Day Gift Guide: Custom Vinyl Art, Elevated Picnic Fare and More
Image Clockwise from top left: John O'Hara's 5' Custom Vinyl in White, $6,800, forsythart.com; the custom vinyl painting in situ; The Gold Vinyl 36, $5,500, forsythart.com;5' Custom Vinyl, $6,800, forsythart.com.Credit...Center: Shannon Dupre.Paintings: Annie Genovese.When the self-taught artist John O'Hara started experimenting with encaustic wax, heating bricks of the material with an electric pancake griddle and then applying it to wood, the glossy, textured surfaces of the resulting works reminded him of a vinyl record.
San Francisco Safeway Creates a Classical Music Nightmare for Neighbors to 'Deter Loitering'
Neighbors of the Webster Street location of Safeway in San Francisco are apparently losing sleep over the local grocer.It seems that the grocery store megachain has taken to bumping classical music in its parking lot for 24 hours a day, for at least a week, to "deter loitering," SFGATE reports.
Kaija Saariaho, Pathbreaking Composer, Is Dead at 70
Kaija Saariaho, a Finnish composer who was brought up in the world of male-dominated high modernism but who broke away to forge an identity of her own, becoming the first woman to have more than one work of hers staged by the Metropolitan Opera, died on Friday at her home in Paris.She was 70.She had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2021, said her publisher, Chester Music, which confirmed the death.
I was naive about Russia': Central Asians on the Ukraine war
Central Asian states keep close ties with Moscow, but younger citizens of former Soviet nations are questioning traditional alliances.Kyiv, Ukraine Serik Talipzhanov does not like Russia any more.The 32-year-old bank cashier lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan's former capital and the financial hub of ex-Soviet Central Asia.
Portland Beer Week Returns to Celebrate the City's Craft Beer Culture With 10 Days of Events
Portland Beer Week, a celebration of the city's craft beer culture and "all of its tangents, from food to artwork and design, film and science," returns this month.The festival encompasses dozens of events happening city-wide, which showcase local beers and their makers through tastings, food pairings, collaborations, and educational opportunities.
Video Premiere: LUCIE - Bleachblonde - KALTBLUT Magazine
Introducing Lucie, a singer, songwriter, music producer and performance artist.Growing up between Berlin's middle-class suburbs and central-city techno parties, Lucie's teenage years were spent spanning the worlds of classical music, jazz and the electronic music scene.BLEACHBLONDE is the third beat-forward, dance tune earworm from LUCIE's debut EP, coming in July.
King Charles III: The soundtrack for a coronation DW 05/05/2023
There is no doubt that the coronation ceremony in London's Westminster Abbey will be a solemn affair, with music befitting the occasion.As he wanted a contemporary touch, King Charles III commissioned 12 new pieces of music, among others from musical legend Andrew Lloyd Webber and film composer Patrick Doyle.
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Happy weekend, everyone!We made it through another week, and now it's time to have some fun.If you are looking for a wacky outdoor adventure, you can go on a run in your underwear with fellow neighbors.Or, spend the weekend indoors viewing the latest gallery exhibits.Best Things to Do This Weekend Want More Things to Do? Budget-friendly.
Chagall, Paris-New York & Paul Klee at L'Atelier des Lumieres
Every year L'Atelier des Lumieres launches its latest event in mid-February.I have had the pleasure of being invited to the press showing each time since 2018, and the shows have always been a joy to experience.Chagall, Paris-New York is the main event and the Paul Klee- Painting Music, is the secondary, shorter show.
A lullaby really can work magic. Science tells us why and how
The reporter's kids, Sasha and Noa, both love falling asleep to lullabies.This is a sleeping self-portrait by Sasha, age 4. With great attention to detail, she has drawn the unicorns on her comforter.Sasha Ladly It's after dinner.We've cleaned up the dishes and our youngest daughter is already asleep.
Roughly 24 million, or one-third of all American children under age 18, are living with an unmarried parent, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data.And 81% of those single parent homes are headed by a mom.This has been a growing trend since the late 1960s.The number of kids being raised by mostly single moms has more than doubled between 1968 and 2017.
Secrets uncovered as scientists explore Beethoven's DNA | CNN
A version of this story appeared in CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.The idea of time travel has always fascinated me.Since I was a kid, I've imagined a Jetsons-like future with flying cars and the ability to journey to the past, as the Time Traveller did in H.G. Wells' novella The Time Machine.
The Succession' Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall
There comes a moment near the start of most Succession episodes when a faint beat enters the scene, right before some punchline or turn of the screw.Then the show's theme music kicks in.Over snippets of vintage family videos, a piano fantasia as grainy as the footage unfurls like a sample for swaggering hip-hop alongside courtly, imperious strings.
When Keir Starmer defended Stonehenge protesters | Brief letters
Like Louise Christian (Letters, 15 May), I instructed barrister Keir Starmer (as he was) in an appeal about the right to protest, but we were successful.In 1999, Margaret Jones and Richard Lloyd challenged their conviction for trespassory assembly (during a Stonehenge protest).The lord chancellor was part of the three-to-two majority that affirmed a public right of peaceful assembly on the highway.
Oh, I guess back to the job drawing board.But I cannot continue to work for someone who is not an inspirational leader that I do not respect and admire.I cannot be on a team with a coach with no direction or communication.I cannot act with a director with no personality.I cannot play in a blues band when someone wants to make classical music.
U.S. Presidential Scholars: 7 Bay Area teens win prestigious award
Seven Bay Area high schoolers have been named 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars, an honor awarded to only 161 students in the nation.Three were honored for general academic excellence: Annmaria K. Antony, San Jose, Harker School Elane Kim, Walnut Creek, Stanford University Online High School Aaron Hieu Tran, Morgan Hill, Ann Sobrato High School Three were honored for excellence in the arts: Zoe Wijesekara Dorado, Castro Valley, Castro Valley High School (writing) Miranda A. Lu, San Jose, Leland High School (visual arts) Gavin Ray Trotmore, Berkeley, Berkeley High School (design arts) One was honored for excellence in career or technical education: Sezen S. Musa, Sunnyvale, Wilcox High School (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) The awards were announced this week by the U.S. Education Department.
Alternative funding models' for BBC Singers being considered
The BBC has had offers of alternative funding models to maintain the closure-threatened BBC Singers, an executive said.Chief content officer Charlotte Moore told the Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) spring conference on Thursday that the BBC is committed to being the greatest champion for classical music.
The BBC has suspended its proposal to close the BBC Singers choir while it explores alternative funding models.The broadcaster said it has agreed with the Musicians Union (MU) that it will suspend the cut while it looks at funding solutions offered by a number of organisations which, if viable, could secure the future of the ensemble.
Plans to scrap BBC Singers sends incredibly bleak message' letter
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Senior members of the UK choral industry say proposals to scrap BBC Singers sends an incredibly bleak message to those considering entering the profession.
Ivors Academy warns BBC of damaging consequences' of classical music cuts
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The chair of the Ivors Academy Classical Council has written a letter urging the BBC to re-think proposed cuts to classical music performing groups, warning of the consequences for the future of music.
Ex-director of BBC Singers on proposed cuts: They are chasing ratings
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The former director of the BBC Singers has criticised the corporation's proposed cuts to classical music performing groups, claiming the broadcaster wants to chase on the coat tails of Netflix or Amazon.
Labour urges Government to reconsider damaging' proposed classical music cuts
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Bruno Le Maire: The French minister under fire for writing a steamy novel amid pension reform crisis
French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is the man of the hour.He's everywhere.He was on the last page of the French newspaper Liberation on Tuesday; he was on the morning program of the radio station France Info on Wednesday; and his name has been spreading like wildfire on social media.
U2's Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It.
The Radiation Oncology department in the basement of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York does not seem like a regular home for rock 'n' roll.But every business day for almost seven weeks this year, U2 blared over the speakers at my request.I became a fan in the late 1980s and have attended nine of the band's concerts, though I probably fall short of superfandom.
First come the plants: the Baishan fir and the Qiaojia pine, the coral tree and the suicide palm.Then come the insects, the Franklin's bumblebee and the Bozdagh grasshopper in turn, then the spiders, the fish, the reptiles, the amphibians, the frogs, 17 kinds in all.Birds fly behind, finches and macaws and vultures and larks, monarchs and thrushes and curlews and crows.
How the World of Classical Music Has Responded to TAR | Features | Roger Ebert
"To have an opportunity to portray a woman in that role and to make her an abuser-for me that was heartbreaking," says Alsop.Field, who began working on the project in 2010, before the rise of the #MeToo movement, understands Alsop's anger: "It's an incredible statement.And I appreciate it," he told Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air." "I think that it's a really important conversation to have.
Founder of orchestra says CBE award rubber stamps' diversity work
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The founder of the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of black and minority ethnic musicians said being made a CBE rubber stamps the work she is doing to diversify classical music.
I have a routine.I listen to jazz music every evening.Ambient music every afternoon.And classical music every morning.This is the background soundtrack to my working life.¹Given the latter, I should be right in the wheelhouse for the new Apple Music Classical app, which just went live last night.
Apple Music Classical is now available globally | Engadget
Jeff Spicer via Getty Images Apple Music Classical is now available for download globally with more than 5 million tracks.Offered as part of an Apple Music subscription, it's designed to make it easier to find things unique to classical music, including orchestras, conductors, musicians and more.The app sprung from Primephonic, the streaming service Apple acquired in 2021.
A Pianist Who Changes Key from Liberace to Cardi B
Name: Chloe Flower Age: 37 Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pa.Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed tower in Lower Manhattan.Claim to Fame: Ms. Flower is a classical pianist and composer known for her self-titled crossover genre, Popsical, which merges classical music with pop and hip-hop.
A part of me has always felt guilty about loving musical theater.I have wondered whether I lacked some kind of sophistication, drinking in a general idea that operas by Verdi, Donizetti and Bizet are high art while Show Boat, Gypsy and A Little Night Music are, while quite respectable, somehow lighter, less awesome or have less, well, gravitas.
This London Underground station is getting a horticultural glow-up
Commuters will be treated to displays of edible and desert plants London's tube stations have had quite a bit of love lavished on them in recent years.There are whiteboards scrawled with motivational messages that will either inspire you or make you choke on your morning macchiato, depending on your disposition.
Sadiq Khan crowns Croydon as London Borough of Culture with new event
On Tuesday (March 14), Croydon has unveiled highlights of the striking and surprising projects that are going to showcase the very best of Croydon's diverse and dynamic home-grown talent in its year as The Mayor of London's London Borough of Culture.The This is Croydon' event will see a range of activities and events opens on April 1, 2023, and will offer excellence through multiple art forms - from classical music to hip-hop, from dance to spoken word, from original stage productions to street festivals, to which everyone, and every Londoner, is invited.
My father, Walton (Wala) Dangarembizi, who has died aged 66 from complications related to diabetes, was an influential promoter of African music in the UK.He began by working on London sound systems in the 1970s before graduating to running a club at the Africa Centre and then providing musicians for major festivals and events, including Womad and Notting Hill carnival.
Man takes revenge on student neighbours by blasting classical music for four days
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Revenge was played out to the sound of ear splittingly loud classical music for a Swansea man who had been driven mad by his neighbours' rap obsession.The unnamed man was reportedly at his wits' end by the constant hip hop playing from a girls student house next door and took matters into his own hands.
Music documentary pioneer Christopher Nupen dies at 88 following long illness
Trailblazing South African filmmaker Christopher Nupen has died age 88 following a long illness, his wife has confirmed.The Bafta-award winner created more than 75 documentaries on classical music, musicians and composers, sharing the power of music in an authentic and intimate way with a golden generation of artists.
End of BBC music programmes devastating' for niche genres, MSPs warned
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The loss of certain music programmes on BBC Radio Scotland will be devastating for three niche genres, MSPs have been told.Changes to the broadcaster's schedule are expected to end three programmes: Classics Unwrapped, Jazz Nights and the bagpiping show Pipeline.
John Torode made an MBE by MasterChef fan' William at Palace
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails MasterChef presenter John Torode said being made an MBE by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace was an incredible experience.The 57-year-old said after having the honour bestowed on him: I've been given this MBE for my contributions to food, TV and charity work and I feel very privileged.
Honoured Classic FM host John Suchet hails music as dementia therapy
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Classic FM host John Suchet highlighted music as the greatest therapy when it comes to helping people with dementia after being made an OBE at Buckingham Palace.
BBC cuts to classical performing jobs criticised as utterly devastating'
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A major musicians' trade union has described proposed cuts to the BBC's classical performing groups as utterly devastating.The BBC has announced plans to scrap its in-house chamber choir, the BBC Singers, and reduce salaried orchestral posts across the BBC English Orchestras by around 20%.
How to save a forest - Recap Sustainable Listening #2 - Forest
How much of the German forest can we still save?Together with Staatsoper Berlin, iHeartBerlin is trying to find a constructive solution through our new event series Sustainable Listening.Check out the recap of the climate performance from early January.Last summer was considered a so-called forest fire summer.
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Happy Thursday, everyone!Close out the final weekend of February at Yards Park's frozen-themed festival, or discover a new Japanese exhibit at the Smithsonian.Best Things to Do This Weekend
Ice Yards.The Yards Park winter extravaganza is back for another icy event.You can experience a ton of frozen fun-from riding a snowboarding simulator to axe-throwing, there's a number of arctic activities to do with friends.
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Happy weekend, everyone!It's chilly outside, but that's not stopping this fun line up of weekend festivals.Taste new zero-proof cocktails at a non-alcoholic drinking fest, or warm up with fire dancers and live music at the Wharf's outdoor party.Best Things to Do This Weekend
DW Jazz Concerts: Richie Beirach and the Sirius Quartet DW 02/12/2023
To play this audio please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 audio More often than not, musicians experiment with different kinds of music, blurring the lines between classical, jazz, pop, rock and other ethnic and traditional musical genres.So if a jazz musician plays classical music, what distinguishes both genres?
Apple will launch a new app exclusively for classical music later this month
Apple is launching a version of Apple Music specifically for classical music later this month, the company announced today.The Apple Music Classical app, currently available for preorder in the App Store, will be separate from the main Apple Music app.But access to the service will be included with a $17-per-month Apple One subscription or most Apple Music subscriptions (excluding the basic $5-per-month Apple Music Voice tier).
Lincoln Center Chooses Hearst Chief as Next Board Chair
Lincoln Center faces a series of challenges in the coming years: recovering from the pandemic, reaching new audiences and making its campus more welcoming to the public.Now it will have a new board chair to help tackle those priorities: Steven R. Swartz, president and chief executive of Hearst, whom the center announced on Thursday would replace Katherine G. Farley, the longtime chair, in June.
There's nothing quite like blinding white, early-morning mountain sun, a blast of crisp, cold air and an Alpine valley stretching ahead of you to start your day.Welcome to Avoriaz, sitting on a cliff-face at 1,800m and the only fully pedestrianised resort in France.It is also home to Snowboxx, a week-long music festival where you can combine skiing with partying, electronic music, late-night DJ sets and forest raves.
Apple Music Classical arrives on March 28th | Engadget
Apple said it was building a standalone app for classical music when it purchased, and subsequently shut down, the Primephonic streaming service.That was 2021, and until now, we haven't known when the new software would be available.The company announced today that Apple Music Classical will be available on March 28th as part of an existing Apple Music subscription.
Can AI make better art than humans? We asked IBM's Seth Dobrin
Artificial intelligence has been infiltrating every industry and the world of arts and culture is no exception.In other words, AI art is poised to explode.AI text-to-image generators such as DALL-E or Midjourney have been creating remarkable visual artworks.ChatGPT has taken the world by the storm with its ability to answer questions, write essays, and summarize texts, among other things.
Who are you to stop me?': the hip-hop group speaking up for India's women
It's not easy being a wild woman in India as members of what is believed to be the country's first female rap group can testify.The eight members of the Wild Wild Women collective have had to deal with knockbacks from the men who dominate the music industry and press.They have had to cajole and fight their parents for permission to play and travel to gigs once they've convinced them that hip-hop is suitable for women to perform.
From white noise to music and meditations, we're rounding up six sleep tracks to help you drift off tonight The idea of playing some kind of sound to help you fall asleep may feel very 2023.But, when you think about it, drifting off to soothing sounds isn't entirely new.Humans have been singing lullabies for millennia, and there's something about repetitive, gentle sounds that really help us to switch off.
Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate
New York's classical music powerhouses would like to get closer to you.Mere months after the New York Philharmonic's stage at David Geffen Hall was shifted 25 feet out into the audience, with seating added behind the orchestra, as part of a gut renovation, Carnegie Hall has followed suit.If more economically: It has reconfigured its second stage, the subterranean Zankel Hall, and rearranged it so that audiences can sit in the round.
Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra
Classical music is an art form that can't help having one foot in the past and an eye on its family tree.You hear about piano teachers who can trace their techniques back to Beethoven, or composers who realize only after the fact that Debussy has crept into their writing.Lineage is crucial; influence, inevitable.