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2020 in classical music: when Covid rained on Beethovens birthday parade The composers 250th anniversary was a somewhat muted affair. But musicians – and more cautiously, institutions – refused to be silenced 13 December 2020 • 2:00pm Celebrations for Beethovens 250th anniversary were muted by the pandemic   Credit:  Heritage Images The theme of classical music this year was meant to be ­triumph over adversity, as personified in the figure of Ludwig van Beethoven. The world’s concer...

Last modified on Sun 13 Dec 2020 05.07 EST Every recording from Igor Levit, the Russian-born, Berlin-based pianist, is an event (in fact this “event’ was launched in September but thanks to Covid delays only reached me late November). He’s as skilled at dreaming up album ideas, always driven by musical purpose, as he is at tackling the major works of the repertoire, recently the complete Beethoven sonatas. Levit’s latest release, recorded in lockdown in May 2020, is Encoun...

Save this story for later. At the close of a catastrophic year in the performing arts, the annual ritual of cobbling together a list of highlights takes on a woeful cast. To begin with, I saw only three in-person events after mid-March. Although I watched dozens of performances online, sitting at my desk day after day lent the experiences a sense of sameness, of solipsism. The power of joining an audience resides in yoking your individuality to a collective, however temporary or disparate. In o...

Live events industry lost $30B due to COVID-19 pandemic, Pollstar says By Mesfin Fekadu Live entertainment industry lost $30B in revenue due to COVID-19 Pollstar on Friday released its year-end report, explaining that the live events industry should have hit a record-setting $12.2 billion this year, but instead it incurred $9.7 billion in losses. NEW YORK - Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, concert trade publication Pollstar puts the total lost revenue for the live events industry in 2020...

(Pocket-lint) - Apple Music has a whole raft of content to celebrate Beethovens 250th birthday. As well as exclusive music, playlists and information, the music service has teamed up with renowned artist David Hockney to create the above exclusive artwork. And, yes, being a partnership with Apple means it was created on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.  You can see a timelapse of how Hockney created the image on this Apple Music page, which is where you can see all the content around the anniver...