BACKIn today’s news: Artists support rising cryptocurrency Monero, early 20th-century classical music made Spotify’s list of ‘emerging genres’ and a new online library of concert videos and feature documentaries by Quincy Jones. Also, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra to make a free web-based music education platform, the Opernhaus in Berlin reopens today and the construction of the new Konzerthaus in Munich is postponed.
Classical Music
Ian Skelly to join Suzy Klein on Radio 3’s Essential Classics
Ian Skelly is to replace Rob Cowan as a co-presenter of Radio 3’s Essential Classics. He will begin his new role on Christmas Day, sharing the position with Suzy Klein.
The Guardian
The sound of mega orgasms: the female composers taking music into intimate places
A soundtrack to an erotic feminist film, the crunch of crisps in your own mouth, a composition for ‘strap-on and electric guitar’ … meet the women who are making music and telling stories on their own terms
Serialism: how early 20th-century classical music made Spotify’s list of ‘emerging genres’
The streaming site’s list of big sounds of 2017 includes the challenging form pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg – nestled alongside chillhop, trap Latino and future funk
Digital Music News
Cryptocurrency Monero Jumps 25% as 40 Major Artists Jump on Board
Over 40 artists have signed-on to support rising cryptocurrency, Monero.
The New York Times
Netflix for Jazz? Quincy Jones’s Qwest TV Takes Concerts and Films Digital
Quincy Jones, the jazz musician and impresario, is helping to start Qwest TV, an online library of concert videos and feature documentaries, most of them unavailable on YouTube or any other streaming site.
Calgary Herald
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is looking to boost musical literacy in Canada with an ambitious program that will make a web-based music education platform free to anyone with a Canadian IP address for a year.
Klassik.Com
Münchner Konzerthaus: Haushaltsausschuss gegen Baubeginn im kommenden Jahr
Der Baubeginn des neuen Münchner Konzerthauses, den Ministerpräsident Horst Seehofer (CSU) gerne noch vor den Landtagswahlen im kommenden Jahr terminiert hätte, muss verschoben werden.
Der Tagesspiegel
Vor 275 Jahren wurde das Opernhaus Unter den Linden eingeweiht. Mit dem Geburtstagskonzert startet endlich der Regelbetrieb im sanierten Gebäude.
Musik Heute
Münchner Kandidatenkarussell: Wer übernimmt die Staatsoper?
Im Münchner Kulturbetrieb müssen gleich drei hochkarätige Posten neu besetzt werden, an der Staatsoper und am Staatsschauspiel.
Music History @today_classical #Today in 1873 FP of #SaintSaens symphonic poem Phaeton in Paris #MusicHistory #classicalmusic
Deutsche Grammophon @DGclassics On this day in 1980, Herbert von Karajan celebrated his 25th anniversary as principal conductor of Berlin Philharmonic in a wonderful Celebration Concert in Berlin. Find out more about the biography of this outstanding conductor: http://www.karajan-complete.com/
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