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Mostly Mozart Hits the Airwaves

August 4, 2020 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and WQXR, New York City’s classical music station, are partnering to present a seven-day, on-air pandemic edition of the annual Mostly Mozart Festival. This summer marks the first time that the … » Read
 

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Hey Musicians, It's Time to Charge for Your Streamed Performances

August 4, 2020 | Nicholas Beard, Musical America
A Bloomberg Opinion writer extols the virtues of streaming for dollars, using a recently streamed Idagio concert by Yo-Yo Ma that charged $8 as his example. “The economics of this type of event might work out quite well,” writes Scott … » Read
 

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Restoring the Notre Dame Organ: A Long, Painstaking Process

August 4, 2020 | Nadine Achoui-Lesage and Angela Charlton
PARIS (AP) — Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year's devastating fire. The mammoth task of dismantling, cleaning, and reassembling France’s largest … » Read
 

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MA's Free Guide to Mostly Free Streams, August 3-10

August 3, 2020 | Clive Paget, Musical America
We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read
 

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Dallas Symphony Announces a Full Fall Season

August 3, 2020 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Dallas Symphony is moving ahead with revised fall season, announcing a full slate of one-hour orchestral concerts September 4 through November 29 in its home, the Meyerson Symphony Center. Audiences will be limited to 75 and ensembles will be … » Read
 

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Re-imagining Performance Spaces in San Francisco

August 3, 2020 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
A norm-shattering event like the coronavirus pandemic can often become an opportunity to encourage out-of-the-box thinking. The San Francisco Chronicle recently engaged in such a thought experiment, asking 22 Bay Area cultural leaders to imagine … » Read
 

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Kansas City Symph Musicians Agree to First Pay Cut Since March

August 3, 2020 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Forced by the pandemic to reduce expenses by 25 percent, the Kansas City Symphony has cut musicians’ salaries for the first time in five months. They have agreed to a 19 percent decrease for the 2020-2021 season; as soon as ticketed … » Read
 

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An Historic Cancellation for the BSO

July 31, 2020 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Covid-19 is forcing the longest string of cancelled concerts in the 139-year history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). The orchestra administration has cancelled the entire fall season in response to directives prohibiting gatherings of 25 … » Read
 

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Houston Symphony Continues Its "Live from the Hall" Series

July 31, 2020 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The upsurge in coronavirus cases in Texas is failing to dampen the Houston Symphony Orchestra’s (HSO) plans to continue its “Live from Jones Hall” streaming series. Programs for four Saturday evenings in August will offer a … » Read
 

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LA Opera Revamps and Reimagines

July 30, 2020 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Inevitably, the Los Angeles Opera has postponed the four works it was to mount September 26- December 13, 2020, to the of fall 2021. Those 20 performances included the mainstage productions of Il Trovatore, Tannhäuser, and Cinderella and the … » Read
 
 

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