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"Having an opinion is not enough." -- Iestyn Davies The recent revelation that the Independent on Sunday is shuttering its own arts coverage for a sourced digest of other critics has not just journalists worried. -
EXCLUSIVE: Baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"...if it's not an economic priority for a news organization to have a policy of informing and advising their readers about cultural events, and commentating on them, then it's not a priority for me to buy that paper." -- Anthony... -
Conductor Andrew Litton Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"The demise of the music critic strikes a somber knell for all musicians." -- Andrew Litton -
UPDATE: Cartoon Trivia ANSWERS with Léo & Péri
Léonin (b. 1150?) was the first-known composer; Pérotin (b. 1200??) was the second-known composer. Having known so little about them, though, we've since dubbed the pair the patron saints of Classicalite's Cartoon Trivia with... -
REVIEW: Plácido Domingo, 'Verdi' (Sony Classical)
UPDATE: It turns out that it isn't Domingo singing the tenor role in the Boccanegra Council Chamber scene. Good for the tenor Aquiles Machado, who sounds uncommonly like his more august colleague. But I'm welching on my bet... -
New and Improved: Classicalite Digest, Vol. 5
OK, good and faithful Classicalites--put down your phones and tablets. The latest edition of the Classicalite Digest (Volume 5, that is) is out now... -
Cartoon Trivia with Léo & Péri
Léonin (b. 1150?) was the first-known composer; Pérotin (b. 1200??) was the second-known composer. Having known so little about them, though, we've since dubbed the pair the patron saints of Classicalite's Cartoon Trivia with... -
From John Luther Adams to Mason Bates, Today's Composers "Do" the Environment
Interesting report from our friends over at San Francisco Classical Voice--and good timing, following hard on the heels of Classicalite's own missive about Paul Walde and orchestra protesting at a new ski resort from atop a glacier... -
Min-Jin Kym's £1.2 Million Stradivarius, Stolen from a London Pret, is Finally Returned
A happy ending for a Strad stolen in England, appropriately enough at a time when Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has mounted arguably the finest exhibition of Stradivarius instruments in living memory... -
There's an App for That: Witold Lutosławski's Birthday Guide to Warsaw, as per Fryderyk Chopin
It's not just Verdi, Britten, 'The Rite of Spring' and Licia Albanese. Piekło, it's Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's birthday, too! -
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Deacon and Kronos Quartet's App Collab, 'Four Phases of Conflict,' @ Lincoln Center Out of Doors [iPhone PHOTOS]
(The app is currently unavailable for BlackBerry devices.) Four Phases of Conflict for string quartet, electronics and audience By Dan Deacon The piece is to be performed by all people in the room: audience, stage performers, crew, staff, security, press, etc. -
BREAKING: U.K.'s 'Independent on Sunday' Reportedly Axes its Critics
The role of reviewers in today's society has been further degraded today by the U.K.'s Independent On Sunday newspaper, which has--our colleague Norman Lebrecht reports at his Slipped Disc blog--just made almost all of its critics...
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