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Manhattan School of Music Boasts Recent Energy Savings

November 10, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Manhattan School of Music has partnered with Con Edison to produce a dramatic drop in its energy consumption. "We're going down over 700,000 kilowatt hours per year throughout this building, which equates to about $140,000 annually," … » Read
 

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Sondheim's The Frogs Meets His 'Finished' Work-in-Progress

November 9, 2023 | David Patrick Stearns, Musical America
Stephen Sondheim developed a healthy attitude toward failure near the end of his life: “In ten years they’ll revive it in London and it will be hailed as a masterpiece.” So he told Nathan Lane when their rewrite of The Frogs was … » Read
 

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'A 95-Minute Night of Misguided Self-indulgence'

November 9, 2023 | Mark Valencia, Musical America
LONDON--This “opera project” by Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic has crisscrossed Europe since its first appearance in Munich three years ago. The incarnation that reached London on November 3, courtesy of English National … » Read
 

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Former Dancer Turns Conductor at English National Ballet

November 9, 2023 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
The English National Ballet has selected Maria Seletskaja as its new music director. She succeeds Gavin Sutherland, who held the position for 15 years and will continue as the company’s principal guest conductor. The 39-year-old Seletskaja, … » Read
 

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Carnegie Hall+ Broadens Its Reach

November 9, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Carnegie Hall has announced that its performing arts streaming service Carnegie Hall+ , currently available on the Apple TV app, Spectrum, Verizon Fios, DISH, Sling TV, and Astound, is now also available in the U.S. on Amazon’s Prime Video … » Read
 

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UMN School of Music Gets a New Director

November 9, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
With the start of the new academic year, Patrick Warfield has begun his tenure as director of the School of Music (SoM) in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at the University of Minnesota. With an undergraduate degree in music education from … » Read
 

Reviews

The Kronos at 50: Closing in on Bulletproof

November 8, 2023 | Steve Smith, Musical America
“As a musician, you know, you’d like to find the kind of music that is so powerful it can stop a bomb from falling, or stop bullets from killing people,” a youthful David Harrington says in an old TV interview excerpted by … » Read
 

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More Turmoil at the Cleveland Institute

November 8, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Student concerns about the administration’s handling of a Title IX complaint against a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music have morphed into calls that the institution’s president and board chair resign. Two hundred … » Read
 

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NC Symphony, State Seek Dismissal of Musicians' Lawsuit

November 8, 2023 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
On Aug. 31 three former musicians of the North Carolina Symphony filed suit against the orchestra , its president and CEO, and the state’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The plaintiffs—Chris Caudill, Rachel … » Read
 

People in the News

Barbican Center Hires Head of Music

November 8, 2023 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
Helen Wallace is to be the new head of music at London’s Barbican Center, effective in February of 2024. She succeeds Will Gompertz, who this past August announced he would leave the Barbican after a three-year tenure to become director of … » Read
 
 

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