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Map sumaru city persona 2 composer4/30/2023 However, overall the 2022 statistics show a classical music world that is gradually bouncing back from the disruptions of Coronavirus – and at the same time is responding positively to demands to show greater commitment to gender parity and the inclusion of living artists. Within the top 100 choreographers working, there are 20 women, including Pite. 20 living choreographers saw more than 50 performances this year, and of this top 20, only one is a woman, the Canadian Crystal Pite. Unlike living composers and conductors, choreographers are not seeing a marked increase in gender parity. It remains to be seen whether public pressure can lead to changes in programming, and greater gender parity of composers performed by German and French orchestras. What these findings indicate is that orchestras in some countries are more committed to including contemporary and 20th-century music in their regular programming, while others are not. Bachtrack’s listings focus mainly on larger music organisations, and as such will not include smaller contemporary music concert series or festivals. The fact that France and Germany are programming less 20th-century music, and fewer living composers, is something audiences in those countries will need to consider. (Hungary’s music programming seems to be heading in a conservative direction – perhaps unsurprising given its present political and cultural climate.) The UK fares better, but it also lags behind the Netherlands and the US. Other countries remain largely static, such as France and Germany, who lag behind other countries in programming 20th-century music. (Mendelssohn and Haydn have both fallen a similar number of places.) Also faring well this year is Mahler, who has climbed six places, to just outside the top ten. Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss both appear in the top ten most performed composers this year, climbing several places. One of the most significant findings from this year’s data is that 20th-century music is being performed with greater regularity, in most places across the world. This amounts to hundreds of listings in many locations, allowing us to make statistically significant observations for the US, the UK and countries across Europe. In 2019 we listed 34,648 events – and while the number of events this year is around 20% fewer, it indicates that the classical music world is gradually rebounding to pre-Covid levels of activity. These comprise around 14,000 concerts, 9,000 opera performances, and almost four thousand dance performances. In 2022 we listed 27,124 distinct events.
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