“On Monday, the group announced that after careful consideration of news reports and advice from health experts, it has decided not embark next week on a tour slated to include concerts in Austria, France, and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.” – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Category: music
Learning Music Isn’t Such A Pleasure For Some
While learning an instrument is all of that and more for some people, music lessons can also be the locus of a very particular set of traumas, from the indignity of being forced to practise the piano with teacups on your hands to the paralysing performance anxiety that might surge forth at a dreaded recital. – Aeon
Thinking About Responding To A Woman Musician With A Nasty Comment?
What if you just looked away instead? Another radical idea from Great Britain. –The Guardian (UK)
London’s Royal Opera House Announces That Plácido Domingo Has ‘Withdrawn’ From Planned Performances
It seems that Europe and England aren’t as interested in supporting the singer quite as strongly as they were a year ago. Their support in the face of allegations of sexual harassment “began to change last week with the release of the American union’s conclusions.” – The New York Times
The Towns Around Coachella Are Getting Nervous
And not just because thousands of partying music fans are heading their way – or rather, yes, because of that, and the potential for all those possible carriers of COVID-19 to be in one hot, sweaty place, together. – Los Angeles Times
One-Year Surge In Women Songwriters In UK. But…
PRS, which collects and distributes royalties to songwriters, said 1,755 women signed up in 2019, versus 1,097 in 2018. Around 63% were under the age of 30. However, 5,580 men signed up in the same period, and only 18.4% of the total PRS membership – listed as “over 145,500” – is female. – The Guardian
Classical Concerts Are Too Damn Long, Says Critic
Jeremy Reynolds took a couple of friends to their first symphony concert and sent them home at intermission — and not because they were misbehaving or ill. Here he explains why. (Even intermissions should be shorter, he says.) – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Washington Post Names Anne Midgette’s Successor As Classical Critic
Michael Brodeur, most recently an assistant arts editor and critic at the Boston Globe, starts work next week. – The Washington Post
Miami’s Ultra Festival Canceled Over Virus Fears
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo told reporters for the Miami Herald that the risks were too great for the festival, which draws 165,000 fans from around the world over three days to Miami’s Bayfront Park. The festival, technically just postponed, isn’t likely to be held until 2021, they said. A formal announcement from the festival is expected Friday. – Los Angeles Times
Sheri Greenawald, Longtime Leader Of San Francisco Opera’s Young Artist Programs, To Retire
“Greenawald’s position has put her in charge of both phases of the San Francisco Opera’s training wing, which attracts young opera singers from around the world. Each summer, around 30 artists show up for [the] Merola [Opera Program], an intensive 11-week residency. Then a handful of them go on to become Adler Fellows, getting instruction and coaching and taking smaller roles on the main stage of the War Memorial Opera House.” – San Francisco Chronicle