Category: music

Pamela Rosenberg will become the only woman currently running a major American opera house. – The San Francisco Chronicle

A new Texas company is selling what it calls “interactive sheet music” that helps a student understand music the way a composer intended. – The Oregonian

– to build a new 19,000-seat amphitheater, set to open in 2001. – The Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)

Why is it that Detroit can’t rate a classical music radio station? – Detroit Free Press

– and you’d conclude that Russian music didn’t exist before the 19th century and Glinka. Not so. – Financial Times

An update. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)

The international appeal of American country music has never been greater, writes the London Times. Once regarded as “a minority sport for sad urban cowboys from Romford, who got their kicks dressing up at weekends like extras from a John Wayne movie,” country music has hit the top of the British pop charts. But in Nashville there is a fight for the soul of the music. – The Times (UK)

– of singing most opening nights at the Met. – The New York Times

– over the weekend – concert cancellations are mounting up as the two side have stopped talking. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)