The Well-Tempered Ear

Classical music: Moldovan soprano is new Singer of the World. Neville Marriner to conduct for peace. Can “new music” save freelance musicians? Visit the Boston Early Music Festival.

By Jacob Stockinger

Today’s news clips involve both new musicians and honored veterans.

Plus, there is of mixing early music and new music.

Take a look, have a read and see what you think.

ITEM: Wales proclaims a new Singer of the World (below):

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/soprano-becomes-first-moldovan-winner-of-bbc-cardiff-singer-of-the-world

ITEM: Conductor Sir Neville Marriner (below) wants to follow Daniel Barenboim in making music an instrument of peace and cultural understanding in Eastern Europe:

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/sir-neville-marriner-spearheads-the-i-culture-orchestra

ITEM: New York City, like other cities around the world,  throws an unusual do-it-yourself music and  piano sculpture (below) party to mark  the summer solstice and a citywide Make Music New York festival:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/06/22/137302271/one-day-who-knows-how-many-performers-make-music-2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/arts/music/make-music-new-yorks-swelter-at-central-park-lake.html

ITEM: Look at flutist Claire  Chase (below) and see if New Music a salvation for freelance musicians caught in the tough economy today:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/06/22/137306745/following-claire-chase-a-week-in-the-life-of-the-modern-freelance-musician

ITEM: Maybe you couldn’t be there. So, what was the celebrated Boston Early Music Festival (below) like?

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/18/137248042/-the-orchestra-at-play-giddy-energy-at-the-boston-early-music-festival