Student Perspectives on Remote Learning
By Eva Stone-Barney and Ruqaiyah Zarook The pandemic has resulted in major changes for music schools and young artist programs, changes that are now being…
Yearly Archives: 2020
Music Education in Public Schools: Between Optimism and Doubt
Even though Quebec Minister of Education Jean-François Roberge cried victory on June 16 by announcing the return to classes this fall for the majority of…
Bayreuth Festival 2020 Programme goes Online in Partnership with DG
DG Stage will host the first-ever virtual Bayreuth Festival this summer. In partnership with the spiritual home of Richard Wagner’s music dramas, DG Stage will present sixteen evenings…
Feinberg/Winterberg: The lost works (Melism)
The only connection between these two composers is their victimisation and the last syllable of their names. Both were silenced for political reasons; neither has found…
Virtual Summer Camps 2020
Overnight summer camps across Canada have been cancelled because of COVID-19. Programs, accordingly, are shifting their activities online to provide both children and adults an…
Les Balcons symphoniques OSDL delivers the care of music
In an initiative aimed squarely at the health crisis, the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil has organized a series of mini-concerts under the balconies of retirement…
Opera America awards 100,000$ for commissions by female composers
June 16, 2020 (New York) — OPERA America has awarded the sixth cycle of Commissioning Grants from its Opera Grants for Female Composers program to…
Aline Kutan & Marie-Ève Scarfone: Making the most of downtime
Musicians don’t perform only because it is their passion: it’s also how they earn a living. The coronavirus crisis has had a devastating effect on…
Choral singing: a long road back
It was a shocker in an age of shocking stories. Fifty-five members of the Skagit Valley Chorale in Mount Vernon, Washington, met at the local Presbyterian church on…
Glimmers of hope?
Fearing for the worst during the current crisis, our species yearns to see the light at the end of the tunnel. With the lockdowns now…
