As medici.tv’s Chief Content Officer I spend a lot of time thinking about classical music—and a lot of time on the internet. Here’s my selection of the top five news items you need to see this week if you want to stay in the know.
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Two literary greats on their new novels about pianists (NYT)
This month marks a bumper crop for books about musicians with the publication of Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, about a child prodigy who uses music as a ticket out of Appalachia, and Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night, a historical novel about composer John Fields and his wife Adelaide Percheron. The NYT welcomed both authors for a joint conversation about writing about music, playing piano, and more.
British choral culture seeks Living Heritage Status (The Guardian)
The breadth of choral culture was a big discovery for me when I moved to the UK as a student and I enjoyed reading this impassioned ode to “a living part of British cultural heritage” in The Guardian this week, in support of a recent UNESCO application for Living Heritage Status. The BBC has been broadcasting choral evensong for a hundred years and thousands of children and adults participate in a vast network of choirs across the country.
Orchestra tear-gassed at Paris protest
I imagine most of the world has now seen images of demonstrations turned violent in Paris this weekend, but did you know that there was also an orchestra on site? The volunteer-run Orchestre du nouveau monde led over 400 instrumentalists in a performance that was cut short by repeated tear-gas bombs at Paris’s Place de la République.
