No One Wants To See The Fonz @ Covent Garden

* More Reaction to the Royal Opera's makeover: "Every rebranding of this sort involves, sooner or later, a DJ and the artist Julian Opie, and this one goes along with the general tendency in an almost parodic way."

"...any self-respecting "buzzy, cool" youth knows when they're being served half-baked ideas instead of the real thing. They also know crap when they see it."

* Wayne Shorter: "We just go on stage and don't know what the hell we're going to do; we just go. And then we say, let's do it again."

* The last radio orchestra on the continent will cease to be in November.

* The CEO of New Zealand Symphony Orchestra tackles an orchestral rivalry.

* Billy Corgan: "They've lost money continuously for seven or eight years and they continue to hold on to the Titanic. This is just another indication of them thinking that they can get away with whatever because they're the big old record business."

* "[David] Lynch discussed with Olga [Neuwirth] the idea that one or more of the characters in the film are undergoing a ‘psychogenic fugue’."

* "Brain-drain in music is a fact in Vietnam. Most music talents who are trained abroad don’t return home because they can’t live by music in Vietnam."