Chancellor of The Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced that UK companies would be able to furlough employees, who would receive 80% of their income whilst staying at home, in order to reduce the potential spread of the virus. This seemed like a sensible idea initially, however once the...
Reverbhas issued a new round of musical instrument grants through itsReverb Givesinitiative. Twenty-nine organizations received grants from Reverb to purchase musical instruments for their youth music education programs, benefiting an estimated more than 37,000 students. Throughout the course of the CO...
The results of the study have raised concerns among the leaders of the UK’s live music sector that if the trend continues, it could lead to the end of the live music festival industry. AIF CEO John Rostron is asking the British government to intervene by providing better support for the...
261swered unequivocally. Barenboim’s metaphor of the Divan Orchestra as a “utopianrepublic” implies a state constitution of the orchestra that can use diplomacy as aninstrument for foreign and domestic relations. As a postnational republic, the or-chestra engages with the musical heritage of the...
An independent nonprofit enterprise, Cedille Records is the label of Cedille Chicago, NFP. Sales of physical CDs and digital downloads and streams cover only a small percentage of the label’s costs. Tax-deductible donations from individual music-lovers and grants from charitable organizations account...
Moving in synchrony to the beat is a fundamental component of musicality. Here we conducted a genome-wide association study to identify common genetic variants associated with beat synchronization in 606,825 individuals. Beat synchronization exhibited a highly polygenic architecture, with 69 loci reachin...