BACKIn today’s news: iPads replace sheet music folder for the YYS, Sheku wins breakthrough music prize off the back of his bestselling album, and A level results day suggests a decline in the number of students taking music. A discourse on censorship in our time and age. Activists occupy the opening of the Pop-Kultur Festival. An obituary for Aretha Franklin. An opera based on the Aquarius and refugees in the Mediterranean. Classical Music can reduce pain in medical procedures.
The Times
Orchestras turn the page on sheet music as tablets call the tune
The Yorkshire Young Sinfonia will go “100 per cent digital” with sheet music ditched from its musicians’ stands in favour of iPads and Bluetooth foot pedals deployed to turn the pages.
BBC News
Sheku Kanneh-Mason wins new Breakthrough music prize
The 19-year-old cellist has been given the Brit Certified Breakthrough Award for selling 30,000 copies of his debut album, Inspiration.
Rhinegold
A-level results: figures show decline in uptake of music
Since 2014, the number of students taking music for A-level has dropped by 25.4% while those opting for creative subjects generally has declined by 11%. This is compared to a decline of 2.6% in A-level entries overall.
Sheffield Telegraph
Sheffield’s Bridge to diversity for classical musicians
The players, aged between 18 and 22, are the first to take part in a new Bridge scheme coaching young musicians of BME backgrounds, thought to be the first in the UK.
Pizzicato
Many studies analysed and described the effects of music listening in the management of pain in adult patients. Most of them found a significant effect of music on pain.
NMZ
Zensur – ein missbrauchter Begriff in den aktuellen „Kunstdiskursen“
Man könnte meinen, man lebe in einem Land, in dem die Zensur zum alltäglichen Leben gehört. Gerade auch im Kulturbereich schwelt an vielen Ecken der vehemente Vorwurf, Kunst werde zensiert.
Berliner Morgenpost
Aktivisten kapern Eröffnung des Festivals „Pop-Kultur“
Wer kurz vor 20 Uhr ins Publikum schaut, im Kino fünf in der Kulturbrauerei am Mittwochabend, dem könnte auffallen, dass es gleich Ärger gibt.
Welt
Ohne sie wären die Karrieren von Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse oder Beyoncé undenkbar gewesen: Jetzt ist Aretha Franklin im Alter von 76 Jahren verstorben.
France musique
Un opéra inspiré du navire Aquarius
C’est un opéra expérimental, sans orchestre symphonique, sans chef, mais avec deux compositrices suisses, Heike Fiedler et Marie Schwab.
We musicians do try to make each concert special; but tonight’s, when I played at the Krakow synagogue named after my great ancestor Moses Isserles (who created the name Isserles) really did feel truly different and special. I think I’ll always insist on playing a cage now. pic.twitter.com/REUY6hWF5g
— Steven Isserlis (@StevenIsserlis) August 16, 2018
iPad sheet music for YYS © The Times