Cloudstreet Declared ‘A Triumph’

A fascinating feature from the New York Times on the 801 year old St Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig and the impact of puberty on their voices. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/where-have-all-the-sopranos-gone.html?ref=music&_r=0

Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim of the New York Times, writes about this form of ‘high-culture hooliganism’.  

Seven of Britain’s opera houses including the Royal Opera House, the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera, get together for a behind the scenes look at opera this Saturday May 10th. The four-hour event Inside Opera will be live streamed on YouTube. Read more. Inside Opera: Live will be livestreamed at theguardian.com/classical and…

This is a perceptive and compelling article on the impact of internet streaming services on creativity  and the livelihood of artists. The writer, David Byrne is a founding member and principal songwriter of Talking Heads. Born in Scotland he lives in the US and warns that disseminating art via the internet – be it literature, music or…

“…Whilst metadata and audio quality have been the burning issues for classical journalists and listeners, it’s the economics of streaming that has been alarming certain independent specialist classical record companies. In fact, as far as they are concerned, streaming poses unique and far greater problems for the classical industry than it does for the pop…