“Choirs, though, occupy a grey area in terms of professional and amateur music-making, and looking to characterise a ‘professional’ choir requires a definition that looks further than the simple details of whether or not its members are being paid to be there, or have non-related day jobs.”
Tag: 07.12.13
London To Get Its Own Answer To New York’s High Line
“London’s answer to New York’s High Line park began to take shape in June after two London architecture firms won a competition to design a landscaped walkway just south of the River Thames that will link new and existing galleries, public works of art and an open-air auditorium.”
Major European Classical Recording Distributor Shuts Down
“Codaex’s most prominent clients included the fine Austrian label PentaTone – which launched the career of violin star Julia Fischer, and whose artists today include major conductors Marek Janowksi and Philippe Herreweghe – as well as SOMM, Canadian labels Analekta and ATMA, as well as Australia’s ABC Classics and many, many others.”
Should Placido Domingo Retire?
“It’s absurd to say that anyone “should” retire, especially when he has as much to offer as Domingo has. Say rather that a health scare to a great artist serves as a reminder to everyone of how much they appreciate him, and thus boosts the hope that what he does in the next years of his career helps to bolster his artistic legacy rather than detracting from it.”
The New York Times Wants To Know Why You’re Working In Classical Music
“We want to hear from tuba players, chamber quartet members, conductors, composers, piano teachers, orchestra fund-raisers and any other professionals about what sparked their interest in the field.” (Er, in 250 words or so.)
New Wartime Letter Keeps On Debunking The Myth Of Artist Joseph Beuys
Beuys, like many other German men of his generation, was “someone who wanted to be a hero, but ended up being lured into something terrible instead.”
Want To Be A Choreographer? Fire Up Your iPad
“The diversion is brief – the choreographed snippets range in duration from a few seconds to a minute or so-but it’s fun. More importantly, it puts the tablet to use in a way we don’t see as often as we should, not as a vessel for consuming existing forms of art but as a fresh new medium altogether.”
Artist In Trouble After Projecting ‘United Stasi of America’ On Embassy Wall
“Officially, a Berlin spokesman confirmed on Friday, Bienkowski is suspected of having violated a law against ‘insulting organs and representatives of foreign countries.'”
A Jazz Club Webcasts Its Shows – But Planning For An Archive Is More Complex
“What everyone seems to agree on, at a moment of accelerating media metabolisms and diminishing record sales, is that a new reality is inevitable.”
The Steinway Sale Is Making Musicians Both Sad And Wary
“Steinway spends almost a year building each grand piano, and pianists fret that an assembly line speedup at the company’s two factories would spoil what they prize: the delicacy of a Steinway’s touch, the colorations of its sound.”