Articles for Program Music

Gala broadcast captivates global audience
6 months, 1 week ago

Gala broadcast captivates global audience

China Daily  

Ninety-three-year-old veteran Li Weibo. The program Red Opera, for example, utilized AI and virtual reality technologies to "awaken" artifacts from the Liaoning Provincial Museum, including the Song Dynasty painting Auspicious Cranes by Zhao Ji, Ten Scenic Views of West Lake by Wang Yuanqi of the Qing Dynasty, a Yuan Dynasty blue-and-white octagonal jar adorned with pine, bamboo and plum designs, …

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Twitch’s New DJ Program Has Flaws, But It’s the Best There Is
55 years, 3 months ago

Twitch’s New DJ Program Has Flaws, But It’s the Best There Is

Wired  

DJs finally have a safe place to stream on Twitch. Twitch’s DJ Program works Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says he’s “proud to have closed a first-of-its-kind agreement with rights holders that makes it possible for DJs to stream music and for musicians to be compensated.” The program also helps DJs, who have largely operated on the outskirts of the platform, …

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Fliers are stressed. Air travel is chaotic. Can an ambient music program at LAX help?
1 year, 2 months ago

Fliers are stressed. Air travel is chaotic. Can an ambient music program at LAX help?

LA Times  

The maelstrom of travel through LAX calms down when you walk into the Orchestrina. “You can see it’s engaging when they press their faces on the glass,” laughed Tim McGowan, art manager for LAX, as he showed off the sculptures and the sound installation to passing travelers last week. “There’s a really interesting effect when you enter the installation, coming …

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Dochterman: Iowa football’s character, consistency on display again in Music City Bowl win
2 years, 3 months ago

Dochterman: Iowa football’s character, consistency on display again in Music City Bowl win

New York Times  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In a season filled to the brim with adversity and ending with a horrific tragedy, Iowa’s football program once again showed why it perseveres and succeeds in the toughest of moments. The Hawkeyes beat Kentucky 21-0 at the Music City Bowl with a formula that has worked most of the year: They played turnover-free, their defense turned …

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China Institute to launch new program on traditional Chinese music
6 years ago

China Institute to launch new program on traditional Chinese music

China Daily  

For over 5,000 years, music has been essential to Chinese culture. China Institute will launch a new educational program on traditional Chinese music in partnership with the Bard College Conservatory of Music on Sunday. The New York City-based non-profit educational and cultural institution and BCCM's US-China Music Institute will celebrate the opening of the new program -- Music at China …

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Music institute hits right note
6 years, 4 months ago

Music institute hits right note

China Daily  

Young musicians of the Juilliard Orchestra perform at a concert in New York on Jan 24, 2017. Tianjin Juilliard School on track as resident faculty appointments completed, Chen Nan reports. As he stepped down as the president of the Juilliard School, the New York-based performing arts conservatory, in June, Joseph Polisi, the school's sixth and longest-serving president, has fulfilled his …

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Chinese music program aims to reach 30,000 underprivileged children in US
6 years, 7 months ago

Chinese music program aims to reach 30,000 underprivileged children in US

China Daily  

Lang Lang With 101 Pianists, the foundation brings together 100 young piano students from one city for a unique social music performance with Lang Lang. The students, selected by Lang Lang and his teacher Gary Graffman from hundreds of applicants, receive mentorship, tutelage and unique performance opportunities. The scholars are also encouraged to participate in the Play It Forward program, …

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Berlin-based program makes classical music more accessible
7 years, 9 months ago

Berlin-based program makes classical music more accessible

China Daily  

Avri Levitan stages his Musethica program in Beijing to bring classical music closer to the public. From children and senior citizens to audiences at a health center and a live-music venue, Levitan showed that classical music, which is regarded as high-art by some, can be accessible to people of various backgrounds. As a young music student, I learned that it's …

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Review: With his L.A. Phil program, here’s what a man of mystery portends for New York
8 years ago

Review: With his L.A. Phil program, here’s what a man of mystery portends for New York

LA Times  

Music Critic When a little-known Dutch conductor who had recently become music director of the Dallas Symphony made his reportedly unremarkable debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2010, he was a man of mystery. Jaap van Zweden was back at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday morning for the first time since then, now the conductor of the hour, …

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Review: The L.A. Phil’s nonstop new music marathon, ‘Noon to Midnight’
8 years, 6 months ago

Review: The L.A. Phil’s nonstop new music marathon, ‘Noon to Midnight’

LA Times  

Members of the L.A. Bass Quintet perform Veronika Krausas’ music for “Porcupine,” a collaboration with Ana Prvacki, who conceived and designed the tent. The program at Walt Disney Concert Hall was part of the new music marathon, “Noon to Midnight.” For the first Green Umbrella program of the season, Saturday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, John Adams conducted the …

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Review: Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening
9 years, 2 months ago

Review: Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening

LA Times  

Los Angeles Times Music Critic Southern California is a land of symphony orchestras. But the performance was so touchingly exacting — Boulez, Harding told the audience, conducted the L.A. Phil 85 times — that “Memoriale” became the weekend’s most memorable music. At the Pasadena Symphony, where principal guest conductor Nicholas McGegan was on the Ambassador Auditorium podium Saturday afternoon, the …

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New York Buskers Hold 'Idol'-Style Battle
16 years, 11 months ago

New York Buskers Hold 'Idol'-Style Battle

NPR  

New York Buskers Hold 'Idol'-Style Battle Each year New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority holds auditions for prime subway performing locations. RACHEL MARTIN, host: So, if you've been in a New York subway recently, you know, there's a whole lot of sounds going on down there. It's a program designed to profile select artists who are performing, busking, in New York's …

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Cultural emissaries left their ambition in Ohio
21 years, 1 month ago

Cultural emissaries left their ambition in Ohio

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer The Cleveland Orchestra is no symphony for wimps. Indeed, it is in the Ohio metropolis’ Severance Hall, not the supposed hotbeds of orchestral innovation in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where the latest news from Austria’s current darling of the hip, Olga Neuwirth, was delivered recently and where something new from England’s acclaimed Oliver Knussen could have …

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An Ode to Los Angeles : Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘LA Variations’ is a vibrant departure for an artist known for cool abstraction.
28 years, 2 months ago

An Ode to Los Angeles : Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘LA Variations’ is a vibrant departure for an artist known for cool abstraction.

LA Times  

TIMES MUSIC CRITIC “LA” because he lives here and he wrote it specifically for his orchestra. That is the way Esa-Pekka Salonen, speaking to a preconcert audience, described his new piece, “LA Variations,” which was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and given its first performance Thursday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. No longer is his first thought of …

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