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How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera |
| “The opera?” the main character of Kenneth Lonergan’s recent film, “Margaret,” sourly asks her mother. “Why are you going to the opera?” |
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Silenced: ASO used as musical “prop,” audience hears recorded music at Il Divo concert |
| Sunday night’s concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre was billed as “Il Divo and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,” but what the audience heard over the sound system was not the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Instead, it heard prerecorded audio tracks by an entirely different orchestra. |
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Music & the Brain: Enter the Scientists |
| Several years ago, Dr. Cheryl Willman commissioned composer/violinist Marc Neikrug to write a dedication piece for the opening of the University of New Mexico’s new Cancer Center in Santa Fe. She is the director of the Center; he is the artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The piece, premiered in 2010, with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, baritone Matthew Worth, and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, describes itself in the title: Healing Ceremony. |
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One-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy ‘an inspiration’ |
| As a teenager seeking his first place at a school for young pianists, Nicholas McCarthy was refused an audition and told he would never succeed. |
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Music may well soothe the savage political beasts |
| A PIANO sat at the centre of things in our family. It still does. Any excuse for a gathering set the piano singing. Birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, picnic races, a sheep or cattle sale, a wake … |
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The Power of Music, Tapped in a Cubicle |
| THE guy in the next cubicle is yammering away on the phone. Across the room, someone begins cursing loudly at a jammed copy machine. |
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Interest in Arts Predicts Social Responsibility |
| If you sing, dance, draw, or act -- and especially if you watch others do so -- you probably have an altruistic streak, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Six Songs of Me: Just why music matters so much to us… |
| A musicologist at Oxford University explains why music feels so important to all our lives – and discusses the six songs that matter most to him |
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London ranks high in performing arts output says major culture report |
| London is one of the highest-ranking cities for outputs of theatre, dance and music performances, says a major report that compares 12 international destinations. |
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Sydney International Piano Competition: a pianist speaks out |
| Did Bartok have it right when he famously declared that “competitions are for horses, not artists”? |
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