Philharmonia Baroque Launches New Label With Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

“In conjunction with its 30th anniversary, San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is not just issuing a new release, it is starting an entire new record label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions. The first release, scheduled for March 8, will showcase the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in a live 1995 recording of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été.”

The Sylvia Plath Effect: How an Artist’s Suicide Changes the Work Left Behind

“[When a] young artist (or writer or actor) is a suicide, the quality of the material [he or she made] is often overlooked because it is immediately more valuable. The lurching randomness of existence suddenly has a steady meaning. Everything done or said by the deceased seems to be a clue that will explain why someone would choose to die rather than live.”

Troubled Brooklyn Phil Tries New Direction With New Director

“The ailing Brooklyn Philharmonic is hanging in there. Having halted most of its orchestra concerts over the last two seasons and cut staff because of money problems, it … [has] hired a new artistic director, Alan Pierson, and promised a ‘new era’.” Pierson, director of the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, is a star of New York’s contemporary music scene.