“On his vis­its to Lon­don, Haydn dis­cov­ered audi­ences who were eager to be sur­prised – and he met their expectations”

Read the full story at The Guardian.

“About 1 year ago we reported that renowned Japan­ese archi­tect Arata Isozaki will team up with British-Indian sculp­tor Anish Kapoor to cre­ate an inflat­able con­cert hall. Dubbed Arc Nova, the mobile venue will tour the earth­quake and tsunami-ravaged areas of Tohoku, deliv­er­ing hope and encour­age­ment in the form of music.”

Read the full story at Spoon & Tam­ago.

“There is a very strong cor­re­la­tion between child­hood engage­ment in the cre­ative arts and mea­sur­able suc­cess later in life, researchers at Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity have found.”

Read the full story at ABC News.com.

The Music Library is please to bring you extended hours start­ing Fall quar­ter!  We are now open Monday-Thursday 8am–7pm, Fri­day 8am-5pm, Sat­ur­day 1pm-5pm, and Sun­day 1pm–6pm.  Thanks to the Music Library Stu­dent Advi­sory Group and your responses to our Libraries Tri­en­nial Sur­vey, we are able to offer these new, extended hours.

“At first glance, the oppor­tu­nity to take free online courses from some of the country’s most pres­ti­gious universities—Coursera part­ners with schools like Stan­ford, Prince­ton, Rice, and Yale—sounds great. My friend Kate rep­re­sents a rel­a­tively non­con­tro­ver­sial MOOC stu­dent: an edu­cated adult tak­ing a class in a non-university, not-for-credit set­ting. She’s what pro­po­nents of MOOCs would call a “life­long learner,” and an ideal ben­e­fi­ciary of free, high-quality online education.”

Read more about music focused MOOCs at New Music Box.

“Don’t make peo­ple pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a pas­sion­ate talk that begins in her days as a street per­former, she exam­ines the new rela­tion­ship between artist and fan. Palmer believes we shouldn’t fight the fact that dig­i­tal con­tent is freely share­able — and sug­gests that artists who give away their music for free can and should be directly sup­ported by fans.”

Lis­ten to Amanda Palmer’s TED Talk.

“Gui­tar play­ers have Eric Clap­ton and Jimi Hen­drix as avatars; accor­dion­ists are stuck, at least in the pub­lic mind, with Lawrence Welk and Frankie Yankovic. Pianists have the works of Bach, Chopin and Scri­abin to chal­lenge them; accor­dion play­ers are sad­dled with requests for “Lady of Spain” and the monot­o­nous oom­pah oom­pah of the polka.”

Read the full story at the New York Times.com

“The feel-good musi­cal “Kinky Boots,” with songs by pop star and Broad­way new­comer Cyndi Lau­per, won a lead­ing six 2013 Tony Awards on Sun­day, includ­ing best musi­cal, best score and best lead­ing man.”

Read more at the Seat­tle Times.

“It may not be true that Walt Dis­ney wanted to be cryo­geni­cally frozen, but Philip Glass’s new opera about the last months of his life explores the man behind the myth. Nicholas Wroe meets its direc­tor, Phe­lim McDermott”

Read the full story at The Guardian.