Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announces 2021-2022 season, patrons to return to Kleinhans Music Hall
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announced its 2021-2022 concert season that will see patrons return to Kleinhans Music Hall.
New for this year, the BPO says Saturday evening performances will move to a start time of 7:30 p.m. and the dinner service at Henryâs at Kleinhans will begin taking reservations at 5:00 p.m., with a table dâhote service. The Friday morning Coffee Concert series and Sunday matinee series will remain options.
âWe are just so thrilled to be back to make live music for the entire Western New York community once again,â said Music Director JoAnn Falletta. âThe musicians and I have missed our audiences dearly. We are so proud of our broadcast concerts from this past year, but nothing compares to a live performance in the warmth and beauty of Kleinhans Music Hall.
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The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has completed its first-ever monthly distribution of mechanical royalties, which is a result of the new blanket license established by the
Music Modernization Act of 2018 (MMA). The ball got rolling in February 2021 when digital service providers (DSPs) began reporting their streaming and download usage numbers for the previous month to the Mechanical Licensing Collective.
The organization’s first calculation of royalties, which
totaled more than $53 million, includes royalties distributed to MLC creator members and rights holders, funds that have been matched to the appropriate musical work but remained unclaimed, and unmatched money. After accounting for $13 million in matched royalties covered by preexisting voluntary licensing agreements, the MLC collected $40 million in direct payments on behalf of registered songwriters and composers in January 2021, and disbursed $24 million to members. Of t
The pandemic has meant a complete change in the way of life for many people and performing artists are no exception. There have been no chances for touring musicals or opera concerts with everyone forced to stay home in this public health crisis.
But, while audiences can t go to the artists, the artists are finding ways to use technology to bring the arts to their audiences.
Sing for Hope, a New York City-based nonprofit organization hopes to connect artists and audiences through its new online program, Open Arts. The platform hosts daily virtual performances by musicians, movement artists and many more.
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Musical performances at vaccination site help New Yorkers and struggling artists
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In New York City you can hear the beginnings of a post-pandemic world as much as you can see them.
At Manhattan’s Javits Center, one of the busiest convention centers in the country in pre-pandemic times, roughly 9,000 New Yorkers shuffle through every day to receive their Covid-19 vaccines.
Thanks to Sing for Hope, the non-profit arts advocacy group known for their colorful public pianos spread across the city, you can also be serenaded while receiving your vaccine.
Through its daily performances inside the Javits Center, the organization helps tackle the dual problem of “rampant artist unemployment” and anxiety surrounding getting a Covid-19 vaccine, Monica Yunus, co-founder of Sing for Hope, told CNN.