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Contests & Awards

Chamber Music Society of Linc Inc. Announces Composer and Bowers Winners

May 12, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) has announced the winner of this year’s Elise L. Stoeger Prize and the nine individual artists and one ensemble selected for The Bowers Program. Formerly known as the CMS 2, the program was … » Read
 

Industry News

Spotify Purges 'Tens of Thousands' of AI Tracks

May 12, 2023 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
The proliferation of songs generated by artificial intelligence (AI) has led industry leader Spotify to remove tens of thousands of tracks from Boomy, a two-year old AI startup that claims its users have generated more than14 million songs. Those … » Read
 

Industry News

Mgmt Firms Merge to Form Roster of 250

May 12, 2023 | Edward Egerton, Musical America
New Jersey based ADA Artist Management has merged with New York firm UIA Talent Agency; the ADA moniker—after Ana De Archuleta, who founded the firm some 20 years ago—has been dropped and UIA’s roster now includes artists from … » Read
 

People in the News

Philharmonia Baroque Exec Defects to the Dance World

May 11, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Courtney Beck, executive director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, is to move to the same position next week with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, also based in the Bay Area. She takes the post held since 2019 by company co-founder … » Read
 

Reviews

Octogenarian Radicals Shine at Brooklyn's Long Play Fest

May 11, 2023 | David Patrick Stearns, Musical America
The 2023 Long Play Festival, May 5-7, emerged as a major event of the spring season, a 50-plus-performance cross-section of New York’s alt-classical sphere and its pioneers. Produced by Bang on a Can’s Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Michael … » Read
 

Contests & Awards

Lotte Lenya Comp Names Three Top Winners

May 11, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
In an unprecedented decision, the jury for the 25 th annual Lenya Competition last week awarded three first prizes. Mezzo-soprano Taylor-Alexis DuPont, baritone Ryan Johnson, and soprano Nyla Watson each took home  $25,000. Geared toward … » Read
 

People in the News

Tafelmusik Has a 'New' Executive Director

May 11, 2023 | Edward Edgerton, Musical America
Toronto early music enterprise Tafelmusik has appointed Glenn Hodgins , current president and CEO of the Canadian Music Center, as its next executive director, as of June 21. Hodgins , who started his career over three decades ago as … » Read
 

Industry News

New Comic Opera as Counterweight to Chevalier

May 11, 2023 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Born Joseph Bologne in 1745 in the French colony of Guadeloupe to a white plantation owner and his slave wife, settling in France as a free man, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges continues to emerge as an important historic figure. It was his … » Read
 

Industry News

Met Cyberattack Caused Major Data Breach

May 10, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The organization behind the cyberattack that  crippled the Met Opera website for nine days in December did in fact grab the names and credit card information of some 45,000 individuals in the U.S., according to The Record.  Letters that … » Read
 

People in the News

Milwaukee Symphony Finds a Successor to Frank Almond

May 10, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Filling an illustrious pair of shoes at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra next fall will be South Korean violinist Jinwoo Lee, current first concertmaster of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen in Germany. Capping a four-year search, Lee succeeds … » Read
 
 

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