The Shared Experience of Live Performance

The Shared Experience of Live Performance

by Stephanie Wilson, Deputy Director, New West Symphony There’s a moment, just before the curtain goes up, when the performers are posed onstage holding their breath and knowing that just on the other side of that curtain, the audience is doing the very same thing. ...
Is Jacob Collier our century’s Beethoven?

Is Jacob Collier our century’s Beethoven?

Jacob Collier, 23-year-old vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from London, has taken music by storm in recent years with his radical jazz reharmonizations and other-worldly music theorization. Known for his “Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-Meta-Lydian” scale and...
Chamber music returns to the living room

Chamber music returns to the living room

Classical music still has a fighting change among the younger generation, thanks in large part to Groupmuse! Groupmuse is an innovative project that connects classical musicians with people’s living rooms, to put on chamber music performances! Intimate and...
Is video game music “serious” music?

Is video game music “serious” music?

Some would say video games are saving orchestral music. At the very least, concerts of video game music have become a popular among younger audiences. Listen to the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform music from the classic video game, “The Legend of...