At least when one particular attendant is working. A concert by a Russian baroque sextet at the Pantheon in Rome was cut abruptly short because they were fixing to play past 6 p.m., when the monument was scheduled to close. Mozart is featured on the pages of Gothamist. Mark-Anthony Turnage prepares to unleash his “Anna Nicole” opera. Eighth Blackbird revises the guidelines for their much scrutinized composition competition. Elgar’s getting the boot from the £20 note. And Alex Ross schools the Royal Philharmonic Society on when to clap. Clap your hands and say yeah for your weekly starred items.
• A shocking YouTube video taken at the Pantheon in Rome captures an attendant stopping a concert of Vivaldi music to the jeers of the crowd. [fig. 1] Have you ever heard of people crying for more early music? Well, it happens in Italy. [Guardian]
• Mozart got a boost with the Gothamist set as a result of dispute between Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin and the New York Times. Let’s recap this in a nutshell: Dobkin said he was way better than the NYT and that the NYT stole some of his ideas. Then the NYT made Gothamist its bitch by plastering a huge ad on the site [fig. 2], which featured this Dan Wakin article about two piano works that were attributed to very young Mozart. [Gawker]
• Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek has signed on to sing the lead in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s upcoming “Anna Nicole” opera. Though the real question is: how long was the LA Times waiting to write that headline? [Los Angeles Times]
• After coming under some seriously crazy scrutiny (like, a 114 comment type of scrutiny; swoon…) for their self-funded commission composition competition, the Grammy-winning new music sextet Eighth Blackbird has decided to postpone the competition until June while they revise the submission guidelines. (And refund everyone’s application fees.) If ur a Grammee-winning newmusic 6tet do you need entry fees to subsidize your commissions? [Sequenza 21]
• Elgar’s 11-year run as a face on the £20 note will come to an end on June 30, 2010 with all of the Elgar pounds being rendered absolutely worthless from that date onward. Poor Elgar’s sacking will leave the Bank of England’s legal tender void of any musical representation. Some are calling for Sid Vicious to be the next musical face on the £20 note. Who would yall vote for? [Guardian]
• To clap or not to clap? That was the question—well, one of them—that Alex Ross posed during a lecture delivered to the Royal Philharmonic Society. The answer? Yes, go ahead and clap if you want; the composer may have even intended you to clap between movements. But just be careful not to clap between the movements in pieces where the composer didn’t intend you to. Tee-hee. [Guardian]
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Tags: Alex Ross, Eighth Blackbird, Elgar, Eva-Marie Westbroek, Gothamist, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Mozart, Pantheon, Royal Philharmonic Society
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