FEATURE: IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING THE ARTS
During a Crisis, Is Art Just a Luxury? What the New Deal Has to Teach Us About the Importance of Supporting the Arts
ARTnews: Jody Patterson
During the Depression, a key facet of FDR’s efforts to restore faith in the government’s fundamental role to provide economic opportunity, employment, and decent living conditions was art.
RESEARCH AND OPINION
The coronavirus-related death toll in jazz keeps rising, to tragic effect
Chicago Tribune: Howard Reich
It will be a while before we can accurately assess whether jazz indeed has suffered more losses, proportionately, than other art forms. Yet the tragedy of so many major figures dying of the disease in such short order says a great deal about the jazz world’s perils and vulnerabilities.
Live Streaming Is Here To Stay — The Future Of An Emerging Technology
Ludwig van Toronto: Anya Wasssenberg
Overcoming the hurdle of playing together apart with current technology.
Streaming from Home is Giving Us A Peek at Musicians’ True Selves
WQXR Blog
Musicians who have often seemed far, far away — viewed from the Carnegie Hall balconies and distant realms of the Metropolitan Opera — are starting to seem like my new best friends.
How Can We Radically Reimagine the Dance World Post-Coronavirus?
Dance: Lauren Wingenroth
What we do know: The dance world will be an entirely new one on the other side, reshaped by months of dancing in our homes and in digital spaces as well as catastrophic physical, emotional and financial tolls.
Artists and Performers Struggle to Stay Creative While Stuck at Home
NY Times: Sandra E Garcia
The pandemic has disrupted the creative lives of everyday Americans who used to spend untold hours together singing, dancing and making art, sometimes for money, always with love.
There’s No Such Thing as Independent Music in the Age of Coronavirus
Vice: Emilie Friedlander
America’s original gig workers are suddenly out of a job. Banding together as part of a broader labor movement may be the only move musicians have left.
Spotify’s ‘tip jar’ is a slap in the face for musicians. It should pay them better
The Guardian: Ben Beaumon-Thomas
Fans can now donate to their favourite artists via Spotify, but this feature is a tacit admission that the firm undervalues the musicians that make it viable.
Application Frustration: How Music Pros Are Navigating Relief Funds and Federal Aid
Billboard: Tatiana Cirisano
Federal loans to help businesses during the coronavirus shutdown aren’t easy to navigate — but charitable funds are easier to get.
BBC Ten Pieces launches new music initiatives to keep children creative
The Strad
BBC Ten Pieces launches new music initiatives to keep children creative during lockdown.
Can music boost your immune system?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Jeremy Reynolds
Numerous studies, including a 2019 review in the journal Annual Research & Review in Biology, have found that both performing and listening to music can have a significant impact on the immune system.
Another pandemic woe: Zoom fatigue
AXIOS: Scott Rosenberg
Zoom is wearing a lot of us down, and as our era of enforced online work and socializing drags on, we’re all going to have to learn how to better conserve our physical and psychological energy.
Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now
The New York Times: Anthony Tommasini
His charming, deceptively simple music will make you feel better about things.
NATIONAL
The Met Opera’s At-Home Gala: Informal Yet Profoundly Moving
NY Times: Anthony Tommasini
For four hours, more than 40 of the company’s stars performed live from their homes around the world.
3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music.
The New York Times: William Robin
Vivian Perlis founded Yale’s Oral History of American Music in 1968. Today, the project continues her mission to record the voices of American composers.
Interlochen goes virtual for 2020 summer camp
Up North Live
For the first time in its nearly 100 year history, the Interlochen Center for the Arts’ summer camp will be held virtually.
New York Proposes Slashes to Cultural Affairs Budget
ARTnews: Zachary Small
NY City has proposed a revised budget for the next fiscal year that would cuts $10.6 million for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA).
A City Ballet Season, but Online, With Bells and Whistles
NY Times: Peter Libbey
The company will stream video of performances and offer movement classes for adults and children.
Violin Channel & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra To Host 2 Day All-Day Online Festival
The Violin Channel
The Violin Channel and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has today announced the launch of a new 2 day all-day VC Orpheus Festival.
2020 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award Recipient Announced
The Violin Channel
Conductor Aram Demirjian has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious 2020 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents LACO At Home
The Strad
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is presenting a new digital program.
Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach?
The New York Times: David Allen
Alisa Weilerstein is streaming on movement of the Bach cello suites a day, just as she has released a polished studio recording of them.
INTERNATIONAL
At the drive-in: ENO to stage opera at a safe physical distance
The Guardian: Mark Brown
Drive-in entertainment, a staple of 1950s America, is on its way to the UK – but not for the latest blockbuster or trashy horror film. English National Opera (ENO) has announced plans for what are thought to be the world’s first drive-in opera performances.
UK Young Classical Artists Trust introduces hardship fund
The Strad
The organization has raised more than £100,000 in only three weeks to support the next generation of artists.
Verbier Festival Has Launched a Relief Fund For Alumni Affected By COVID-19
The Violin Channel
The Verbier Festival has announced the launch of an emergency relief fund for its alumni who are currently facing financial losses due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra invites NHS workers to attend its concerts for free
The Strad
The orchestra is to make up to 5,000 free tickets available to NHS workers, once concerts resume following the coronavirus pandemic.
Players of tomorrow: Barbican Quartet
The Strad
Dutch first violinist Amarins Wierdsma from the Barbican Quartet talks to Chloe Cutts about Janacek’s string quartets, her very special Guadagnini, and keeping the music playing through the coronavirus lockdown.
Sihao He – ARD Cello Competition Major Prize Winner
The Violin Channel
Chinese cellist, VC Young Artist Sihao He is building an international reputation as one of the new generation’s most gifted young concert soloists.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The first great Zoom music video has arrived
Washington Post: Sarah L. Kaufman
The global shutdown has met its match in the indie folk-rock band Thao & the Get Down Stay Down. This Oakland-based group has created the finest music video to emerge from our age of isolation.
Need zing in your Zoom? Let Warhol and the avant-garde vamp up your video conferences
The Guardian: Steve Rose
It’s hard to make much of a mark in the strange, static world of video-conferencing. But we could all learn a trick or two from famous arthouse film-makers, from Jim Jarmusch to Andy Warhol.
The Pandemic Separated These Band Members. It Didn’t Stop Them From Creating an Album.
Texas Monthly: Arielle Avila
The Austin psychedelic rock band remotely wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered ’World as a Waiting Room’ in just thirty days.
OFF THE BEATEN TRAIL
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel – Electric Performance
The Violin Channel
LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel delivering an electric performance of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony …
Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk
An amazing compilation!
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