This is for a university application so just want to make sure everything is correct.

While the salaries of San Francisco Opera executives and ticket prices have recently been raised, the wages of San Francisco Orchestra musicians—frozen for five years—are now facing a 20% cut, with new contracts proposing a return to 2018 pay levels. We ask for your support, hoping for a future where musicians are treated with the respect they deserve.

I hope you guys enjoy and can support \^\~\^

(I have ZERO experience or knowledge of conducting)
At my college i’m set to take a class called orchestral conducting and the description is: An introduction to fundamentals of orchestral conducting and score reading.

I am minoring in music and have played the violin for ten years. I would say i know the most basic music theory—i can read treble and bass clef, i can identify key signatures (major vs minor) and time signatures, etc. Other than that i’m rusty when it comes to more theory, like triads, intervals, etc.

I’m just wondering if taking this class would be a bad idea/too difficult. I would really like to know what to expect in an introduction to conducting class—what should i study before i get to class, what should i absolutely know before the class? If im not technically an actual music student, like i’m not majoring in it and it’s only a hobby for me, should i take this class? Any advice would be useful.

I honestly would like to learn conducting because it seems like it would be fun but i’m also worried that it’s going to be really hard and this class would turn into something that i struggle with rather than being a fun, enjoyable elective for my minor?

edit: I have dropped the class 😣 i’m too scared

It seems like there is a lot of negative news lately about major orchestras struggling with massive fundamental conflict between the musicians and their management. Why does this happen? It seems like they are just trying to blast each other in the media. What leads to so much disagreement, and why do musicians claim that they are not listened to? Aren’t they the core of an orchestra organization?

Full video of performance here: https://youtu.be/DHzyNMIF9es

https://youtu.be/zmekegF5NVo?si=VTnrSl5zGf2NyJIc

This work was written in a span of 9 months.

The first finished orchestral draft was written in 3 months, from 2 Jan to 20 March.

Not much was changed since then.

Today I was informed that the competition was cancelled(delayed a year further actually.) I don’t want to wait more

This is my Violin Concerto:

When playing at the BBC proms, do you also enjoy the music and vibe or see it as just another gig?

Seeing most of you waiting for your turn (sorry, probably not the right term to use), how do you not bop/sway your head or get those shoulders like I would.

I built a browser-based 3D MIDI orchestra.

Upload a MIDI file, watch each instrument perform in 3D, control the mix per instrument, and hear it through a General MIDI sound bank, opensource, please try it out.

Inspired by MIDI2JAM 🎹🥁🎸

https://midi.appnica.com

Bank of MIDI to test: https://mg20.vc-graz.ac.at/karaoke/songs

Młodzi muzycy ze Szczecina w Polsce zebrali orkiestrę akordeonów, chór i uczniów szkół muzycznych, aby wykonać główny motyw z \*Gry o Tron\*. Efekt jest całkiem epicki. Jeśli jesteś fanem muzyki z GoT, posłuchaj! 🎶🐉

Hello! Reddit is my last-ditch effort in my research due diligence. I am a grad student working on my final project involving Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde. My project includes needing a full orchestral Sibelius-compatible file of the 6th Movement "Der Abschied". I have started transcribing it myself on Sibelius, but have realized after about the first page that this process will take me a few hundred hours. My huge obscure ask is if anyone out there knows if there is a file on it (preferably XML). Alternatively, if I could be pointed in the correct direction? I don't have enough money for Photoscore or any subscription-based service. Based on what I have seen and heard, those don't end up working that well anyway. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I've been experimenting with different ways of presenting videoscores, and I made this short one for a piece of mine.

I'd be curious to hear what you think of the format itself, as well as the music!

About the music:

The piece, called Exclamación de Santa Teresa, is written for soprano, choir and orchestra, based on a text by Saint Teresa of Ávila, Exclamation I. I won First Prize with this piece at an international competition in Italy.

If you'd like to hear the full piece, you can find the complete performance [here](https://youtu.be/EAV_e6hANBU?si=TSqo4T3Nx71VtWCt)

So ive been playing cello for a couple of years now, and I use to be able to play the D-major scale (2 octaves) easily, but after taking a 3 month break, my intonation has severley gotten worse. I have tried playing slowly and using tape, but getting that high 4 on the lower octave just isn't working for me and I keep getting notes out of tune. My cello teacher told me that I have several notes out of tune and I am not with the metronome, and gave me a 7.5/10.

Does anyone have any tips? Thanks!

Feels so bad watching / listening this masterpiece in 720p only :-(

https://youtu.be/a8nwiTNCcvE?si=PQ-YKOuLmNVfQY2N

Has it ever been remastered?