With only a book about business and the help of drummer Jack McQuade, Jack Long opened his first music store at the edge of York Village, on the second floor of a Carlton Street home.
Choosing the right monitors is critical to the essential home studio. We compared three pairs of reasonably priced monitors costing between $1,000 and $1,500
The new Apple Music Classical (AMC) app is out, and it’s already making a big impression. Launched on March 28, Apple Music Classical is a companion app offered only to paying Apple Music subscribers. The new software pulls from the same database of music, but it claims to provide better audio quality and a more intuitive user interface (UI) than its competitors. Why is a separate app necessary? According to Jessie Char, a classically trained cellist, former Apple employee, and career UI designer, it would be a lot more difficult to incorporate all the classical music categorization options into the…
March 28, 2023 – Apple Music Classical launches their brand-new standalone app designed specifically for classical music today. Besides now being fully dedicated to classical music and its artists with the world’s largest classical music catalogue, a key new element for classical fans is the ability to search for individual works and see a presentation of artists’ recordings for each specific work. Offering the highest audio quality available with immersive spatial audio continues to be a prime focus. Apple Music Classical is available at no extra cost as part of the Apple Music subscription. DISCOVER THE APP Alice Sara Ott…
by Karim Blondy and Adrian Rodriguez The use of microphones in opera productions is a topic that has long been a source of debate among opera enthusiasts and professionals alike. While some argue that the use of microphones detracts from the authenticity of the performance, others argue that they are necessary to enhance the audience’s experience and the performers’ ability to hear and stay in tune with the orchestra. Traditionally, operas were not performed with microphones, but these days many performances take place in large theatres which were built for a multiple array of musical productions, mostly electrified music types,…
Montreal, August 16, 2022 – The 31st edition of the internationally acclaimed “BLACK & BLUE” LGBTQ+ Festival will be held during the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving and American Columbus Day, from October 6 to 10. “After the postponement of the 2020 and 2021 editions due to the health constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conditions are now in place for the return of Black & Blue this year with great enthusiasm, because we will present the main event of the Festival in a truly unique spectacular venue for us, with a very innovative concept”, indicated the President of the…
REVIEW: of The Orchard, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City, running through July 3 (viewed June 19, 2022). A governess’ headless cyber-dog scampers across a stage carpeted in eerie blue leaves. Impossibly sheer, nearly undetectable scrims facilitate spectral, sometimes cosmic images that seem to materialize out of thin air. A lithe, twelve-foot robotic appendage dominates the playing area, swiveling about, training its ring light on a scatter of household artifacts, as though surveying the remains of the day. It is within this surreal environment that director Igor Golyak has placed his adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1904 play,…
Fort Worth, Texas (May 31, 2022)—The Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition welcomed 30 young pianists from around the world to the Opening Dinner & Draw Party Tuesday evening, May 31, 2022, at the Historic Hilton Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. The competitors, members of the Jury, and host families received warm welcomes from Cliburn staff and patrons, and past Cliburn Board Chairman Susan Bagby Tilley was honored with a tribute delivered by Jury Chairman Emeritus John Giordano. Other speakers included Cliburn President and CEO Jacques Marquis, Chairman of the Board Jeffrey B. King, and 2017 Gold Medalist Yekwon Sunwoo. After dinner,…
Fort Worth, Texas (May 30, 2022) – As it has been since 2001, the entire sixteenth edition of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (June 2–18, 2022 in Fort Worth, Texas USA) will be streamed live online from the first note to the announcement of the new 2022 gold medalist. The Cliburn was a pioneer in the early days of webcasting, and it continues to innovate and expand this vital program as a global leader in the field; this year becoming the first classical music competition in the world to broadcast in 4K. The 2022 Competition webcast promises an even higher level of quality of…
After two long years, the new co-artistic directors of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), Martine Dennewald and Jessie Mill, announced a renewed international festival will be held in Montreal from May 25 to June 9. The two women, who have crossed paths at various festivals for several years, wanted to build on exchange and dialogue. Well-known to Montreal festivalgoers, Jessie Mill worked as artistic and dramaturgical advisor while Martin Faucher was head of the festival. Martine Dennewald, a born Luxembourger, directed the Festival Theaterformen in Brunswick, Lower Saxony (Germany) for six years. “We have to think about where we are today,…
