Faculty Vote No Confidence in Senior CIM Leadership
The school’s deficit, well on its way to doubling since last year, and accreditation concerns pushed a large majority of conservatory professors to support the unprecedented—if symbolic—motion.
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“The director clearly wanted to make the two singers suffer from my score the same way the two characters suffered from their relationship.”
Georg Friedrich Haas
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The thrusting tempos, pounding fortissimos, and many, many climaxes of the Romantic composer’s oeuvre
An Actually Erotic Classical Music for Sex Playlist
Quiverings, tappings, and indecorous counterpoint
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Argumentum Ad Antiquitatem
Wynton Marsalis is a controversial figure in American jazz. What happens to that baggage as he gains a foothold in UK classical music?
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Classical and classically-inspired music for fall—that isn’t by Vivaldi
Inside the Crisis at the Cleveland Institute of Music
With conductor Carlos Kalmar, the conservatory hoped to become a mecca of orchestral training. After allegations of overwork, bullying, and discrimination, some students are now in open revolt.
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The UK government closes its review into Arts Council England
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The Case for a New Music Theater
Directorial high-handedness is everywhere in the opera world. But new operas can only reach a wider audience when the staging realizes the qualities inherent in the work, rather than damaging or even destroying it.