![]() ![]() At the same time, audiences barricaded at home all over the world are suddenly open to stumbling on specialized and local organizations, such as the New York Festival of Song, which streamed and posted last Sunday’s concert from the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah. ![]() Thanks to its superb Digital Concert Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic is now your neighborhood orchestra. The worldwide closure of concert halls means that, for a while, nobody will be going anywhere, but all of us can hear music from all over the world, much of it for free. What chicory was to coffee during World War II, livestreaming is to live performance.Ĭlassical music is simultaneously global and intensely local, which is why artists are almost continually on tour. There are few forms of cultural expression less suited to phones and earbuds, which compress big drama, vast stages, and deep orchestral sound into a pair of narrow runnels, but if you can bump the picture to a more generous screen and the sound to decent speakers, you can approximate something of the live experience. #Stream opera music tvTo forestall the end-time, many organizations jumped into streaming years ago, unearthing archived recordings and old radio and TV broadcasts, and pushing out those, as well as live performances, over the internet. ![]() The worlds of opera and classical music have had plenty of experience preparing for the day when their public would vanish, though they did think it would happen more gradually. The Metropolitan Opera is streaming past performances nightly, attracting such large audiences that on opening night of its new virtual season, even before the curtain went up on Carmen, the site crashed. ![]()
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