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When Art is Noble and Beliefs May Not Be
These days, on Facebook, it is often possible to discover things about your “friends” you might not wish to know. I leave it to others to decide whether every change in one’s life, mood and domestic...
View ArticleNow Trending on Twitter: #ClassicalBands
Classical music fans, some with a little too much time on their hands, took to Twitter this week to participate in a challenge known as #classicalbands. The concept involves combining names of...
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When Opera Singers Go it Alone
WASHINGTON, DC -- On February 4, I read this post on Facebook by the excellent American countertenor Bejun Mehta:“Solo touring is surely a strange life. In-between days are spent on travel and...
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You Said What on Facebook? Musicians Discover Perils of Oversharing
Many of us have posted things online that we wish we hadn’t. The question of how unfiltered classical musicians should be on Facebook and Twitter re-emerged recently with the controversy surrounding...
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Smartphone App, Tweet Seats Add Interactivity to Philadelphia Concert Halls
The technological barbarians are at the gate – and are being welcomed graciously.Only three years after an errant ringtone during the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony...
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10 Times Classical Music Owned Facebook in 2014
Classical music may no longer grace the covers of weekly news magazines or on primetime television as in days of yore, but it does occupy a thriving corner of the social media sphere. Here are 10...
View ArticleThe Most Shared Classical News Stories of 2015
Classical music is often vastly overshadowed by popular culture on social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. To put things in perspective, Lang Lang has 277,000 followers on Twitter....
View ArticleWhen Struggling Songbirds Set Social Media Atwitter
Not too long ago I attended a fine performance of an opera at the Met in which one the principal singers was not having a good night. She was cast in one of the leading roles and very little went...
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