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Cabrillo Festival to feature new and recent music touching on social, political, environmental issues
“Like every other arts organization in America, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music had to rethink its operations drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown,” writes Joshua Kosman in Tuesday’s...
July 20, 2022
Four new musicians at San Francisco Symphony, including principal cello
“A new musician will assume the principal cello chair for the San Francisco Symphony,” writes Taylor Grant in Friday’s (7/15) Musical America (subscription required). “Rainer Eudeikis, who joined the Atlanta Symphony...
July 20, 2022
McKnight Foundation’s 2022 fellowships and visiting residencies in Minnesota
“American Composers Forum [has announced] recipients of this year’s McKnight Composer Fellowships and McKnight Visiting Composer Residencies,” reads an unsigned article in Tuesday’s (7/19) I Care if You Listen....
July 20, 2022
Harpist Brandee Younger, combining classical and nonclassical genres
Brandee Younger “has spent a long time taking her instrument out of its traditional concert setting, and now she’s bringing it to the courtyard of the Baltimore Museum of...
July 20, 2022
Opinion: UK’s Proms concerts need to balance old and new, change with the times
“In this weekend’s Sunday Telegraph, Stephen Pollard criticized the BBC Proms, saying that the recent broadening of its repertory has betrayed its purpose as a series of classical music concerts. I cannot...
July 20, 2022
Annapolis Symphony makes its first-ever overseas tour: Madrid, Zaragoza, Valencia, Granada
“ ‘Magnifico’ … That’s how one Spanish music critic described the Annapolis Symphony’s debut performance in Madrid last week, when the orchestra launched a four-city tour of the Iberian...
July 19, 2022
Wichita Symphony’s Symphony 360 “in the round” series returns
“The pandemic, with its restrictions for indoor audiences, gave birth to several innovations for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra during the past year,” writes David Burke in Sunday’s (7/17) Wichita...
July 19, 2022
Time for Three and San Francisco Symphony in new “Contact” concerto
“Live music has returned to the San Francisco Symphony. Time for Three, a band performing with the symphony this week, is making waves through their notes by … sharing...
July 19, 2022
Canada’s Windsor Symphony, connecting with audiences live and digitally
“The Windsor Symphony Orchestra used a $213,900 government grant to purchase video equipment and hire video technicians, which allowed it to complete two concert seasons that were fully virtual...
July 19, 2022
Soprano Angel Blue withdraws from performances in Italy’s Arena di Verona to protest venue’s “blackface” makeup
“A leading American soprano, Angel Blue, announced this week that she was withdrawing from her planned debut at the Arena di Verona in Italy to protest its use of...
July 19, 2022
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