The Washington Post

All-too-easy listening

Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...
The Boston Globe

Classical music is being used to disperse unhoused people. There are some deeply flawed assumptions at play here.

Some were shocked when the LA Metro police piloted a program of broadcasting loud classical music to disperse unhoused people. But it’s only the latest attempt in a sad, Kafkaesque history of ...
Los Angeles Times

Classical music still effective at dispersing loitering teens

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. With all sorts of the funding cuts hitting orchestras during the recent ...
The Guardian

Classical music brings us joy and meaning. In this time of doom and gloom, we need to talk about that

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...
The New York Times

Solutions for the Crisis in Classical Music

Readers discuss ways to rescue the industry. To the Editor: Re “Stop Mutilating Classical Music to Sell It to Kids,” by Evan Shinners (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 23): Mr. Shinners’s essay makes an ...