“This week the Billboard Hot 100, the magazine’s 55-year-old singles chart, takes a evolutionary step by incorporating YouTube plays into its formula.”
Tag: 02.21.13
Musicians Begin Leaving Locked-Out St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
“It’s a great loss for the SPCO. We’ve said repeatedly to management that we will not be able to recruit or retain the talent that this orchestra needs to remain world class, and this is just a textbook example of that.”
This Season’s American TV Shows – They Haven’t Done So Well
“It’s been a tough midseason for new and returning shows bowing on the Big Four — plenty of tankings and yankings — and no net has been immune.”
Here’s The Speech Brits Are Arguing Over: Hilary Mantel On ‘Royal Bodies’
“These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. Once she gets over being sick, the press will find that she is radiant. They will find that this young woman’s life until now was nothing, her only point and purpose being to give birth.”
Yannick And The Philadelphians Begin To Reshape (Not Break) The Mold
For his second season as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-SÉguin’s “presence increases from nine to 11 weeks. Subscription concerts expand from 78 to 84, though ‘Beyond the Score’ lecture/concerts go on hiatus for lack of sponsorship. The single biggest innovation is a composer-based ‘micro-festival’ Oct. 31-Nov. 2. Three of the orchestra’s principal players will premiere new pieces.”
Classical… What?
“The term “classical” (like the related “neoclassical”) has so wide a range of associations–aesthetic, political, and social–as to make it almost useless as an analytical term. If at moments it seems the ally of all things modern, it can in an instant be the archenemy.”
The Things We Vividly Remember (Sometimes We Don’t)
“It is startling to realize that some of our most cherished memories may never have happened–or may have happened to someone else.”