BACKIn today’s news: Spotify remains at a loss despite 75 million paying subscribers, RSNO orchestra to play along viewing of Jaws, combined music-rights database provides more transparency, Crocodiles listen to classical music in MRI scanner, almost half UK orchestral musicians cannot make ends meet, and British conductor Sir Roger Norrington as guest of Deutsches Symphonie Orchester.
Classical Music
Craig Armstrong signs to Decca for new studio album
The award-winning film composer Craig Armstrong OBE is to release a studio album as part of a major new deal with Decca Records.
Music Business Worldwide
Global Music Rights Database Pilot Launched with top music companies
A raft of top music companies including, Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell, BMG and Global Music Rights, have joined a pilot by tech startup JAAK, which provides a shared data network that aims to create a public record of rights and a fixed audit trail.
Choir and Organ
Genesis Foundation announces premieres inspired by the Eton Choirbook
Harry Christophers & The Sixteen are to premiere new Genesis Foundation commissions by Sir James MacMillan and emerging composers Phillip Cooke, Marco Galvani and Joseph Phibbs.
The Times
Liam Scarlett on remaking Swan Lake for the Royal Ballet
The choreographer tells Debra Craine what to expect of the Royal Ballet’s first new take on the classic for 30 years
Evening Times
Jaws to be screened with live orchestra
The movie is to be projected onto the big screen with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) playing one of cinema’s greatest ever music soundtracks.
Science Daily
Crocodiles listen to classical music in MRI scanner
What happens in a crocodile’s brain when it hears complex sounds? An international research team has provided the answer to this question.
Slipped Disc
UK classical musicians ‘cannot make ends meet’
A survey of 285 musicians in seven orchestras across the UK has found that 44 percent struggle to pay their bills.
Der Tagesspiegel
Martinů und Mozart: Der britische Dirigent Sir Roger Norrington zu Gast beim Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester.
BR Klassik
Über 300 Millionen mehr eingeplant
Der Bund will dieses Jahr gut 300 Millionen Euro mehr für Kultur und Medien ausgeben als laut Regierungsentwurf im Vorjahr, dies teilte die Kulturstaatsministerin Monika Grütters am Donnerstag mit.
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Spotify gewinnt fünf Millionen Abo-Kunden im Quartal
Der Musikstreaming-Marktführer Spotify hat im vergangenen Quartal fünf Millionen zahlende Abo-Kunden hinzugewonnen und steckt trotzdem weiterhin tief in den roten Zahlen fest.
Pizzicato
Erste Bayreuther Opern Uraufführung seit Parsifal
Der österreichische Komponist Klaus Lang (*1971) komponierte auf Initiative von Katharina Wagner für die Bayreuther Festspiele 2018 die Oper ‘der verschwundene hochzeiter’, nach einer niederösterreichischen Sage.
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Liam Scarlett with Lauren Cuthbertson © Chris McAndrew for The Times