Tectonics – why I can’t really tell you what we’re about to hear.
Every year, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra takes a bold and beautiful risk with its weekend festival devoted to the blazingly, capriciously new,
writes presenter Kate Molleson.
Tectonics is a platform for music that tests, probes and lingers in the margins. For music that refuses to conform. Sometimes (let’s face it!) some of the music doesn’t entirely work out. And yet the players of the BBCSSO embrace that risk, knowing that the alternative – confining themselves to the already-trod – would be much more dangerous. Tectonics is a laboratory that requires the orchestra to exist in the present tense. It stretches the players in thrilling new directions and rejuvenates how they approach Beethoven and Bruckner, too. It reshapes how they sound, who listens, how they listen.
First 20 winners of Music VR Backers Fund revealed
The first 20 recipients of the inaugural Music VR Backers Fund have been decided.
The grants of $2,500 go towards the artists using live virtual reality technologies to connect with fans in new and exciting ways.
They take part in the inaugural virtual reality festival Beyond Boundaries, with dates to be announced soon.
“This is an exciting opportunity to have work presented in an innovative way that will hopefully bring my work which for me is embedded into thousands of years of my cultural connection as a First Nations person into the now,” Yorta Yorta hip hop artist and activist DRMNGNOW said this morning.
The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings.
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Dec. 17, 2020
“In Seven Days”; Kirill Gerstein, piano (Myrios)
The composer Thomas Adès and the pianist Kirill Gerstein’s artistically fruitful friendship has given us two essential albums this year: the premiere recording of Mr. Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring Mr. Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon); and this one, which includes a solo arrangement of the harrowing and slippery Berceuse from Mr. Adès’s opera “The Exterminating Angel.”
A trip to better management skills?
More and more Israeli senior executives are discovering the benefits and perils of mind-altering drugs.
The substances described in this article are illegal in Israel and their use, even in a controlled manner, may cause physiological and mental disorders. About three years ago I turned 50 and decided to give myself a present, says Eyal, a senior executive at a global corporation. I took a month off from work and decided to go on a two-week retreat with a famous shaman in Peru - to encounter all that I thought I would be and hadn’t fulfilled. When I arrived, I saw no white people, except me. A tubby, pleasant person took me to a hostel where people from all over the world had already gathered - all business people who want to connect with themselves. For some of them, this was not the first time.