The Pointy End
Clapping reveals applause is a 'social contagion'
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- Friday, 21 June 2013
The quality of a performance does not drive the amount of applause an audience gives, a study suggests.
How do you stage an opera on a beach?
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- Tuesday, 18 June 2013
No opera smells of the sea quite like Britten's Peter Grimes. The music makes us constantly aware of the sea's immensity, it's potential for threat, and the play of light on its waves.
Playing Mozart — On Mozart's Violin
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- Monday, 17 June 2013
The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria.
Why don't men join choirs?
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- Monday, 17 June 2013
Men don't sing, so they say. Every choir leader I know, and I know a lot, bemoans the fact that they can't recruit men to sing in them.
If looks can sell classical music to the young, why make a noise?
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- Monday, 17 June 2013
If it's uncomfortable for any man to call a woman sexist, it's downright blasphemous to attach the label to the presenter of Woman's Hour.
Encuentros Foundation Celebrates its 45th Anniversary
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- Wednesday, 12 June 2013
The International Encounters for Contemporary Music Foundation of Argentina celebrates, in 2013 , the 45th anniversary of its creation, which means that we have devoted 45 years to make the contemporary music and their musicians from all the world known to the Buenos Aires audiences including many provinces of our country through concerts, seminars, international meetings, composition competitions, radio auditions...all these activities free for all the public.