Friday 28 February 2014
Thursday 27 February 2014
Slatkin invites classical fans to shoot concert photos and post 'em
"You've heard that we're the most accessible orchestra on the planet, and tonight you're going to be the most accessible audience on the planet. For the first time I'd like to invite you to turn [on] your cellphones for a change, and cross the stage's barrier by capturing this moment and posting your photos to your favorite social media channels."
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Wednesday 26 February 2014
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Musician Zoe Keating reveals iTunes, Spotify and YouTube payouts for 2013
Cellist’s latest publicly-shared numbers reveal 92% of her income still comes from sales rather than streams.
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Monday 24 February 2014
Sunday 23 February 2014
Philharmonic, musicians OK 1-year contract with deep cuts
After more than nine months of negotiations, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Executive Board and its musicians have reached a final ratification for a new one-year contract, the Philharmonic announced Friday.
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Saturday 22 February 2014
Friday 21 February 2014
Thursday 20 February 2014
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Violinist Vanessa-Mae Completes Giant Slalom Run
Easing her way down the Olympic giant slalom course, pop violinist Vanessa-Mae completed Tuesday's first run with the slowest time of the 74 skiers who finished.
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Sunday 16 February 2014
Lara Takes On HBO and Game of Thrones in an Open Letter
Dear HBO: I am a violinist and the owner of the Ancalagon record label. I excitedly looked forward to your Game of Thrones series in 2011 as I was awaiting the fifth book. I could hardly wait for either. As the season went on, I found it increasingly difficult to watch the opening, which features a pale, pallid, pathetic computer-generated imitation of a solo cello.
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Friday 14 February 2014
Thursday 13 February 2014
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Gatti Cancels Carnegie Hall Appearances
Daniele Gatti, a conductor with a growing international career, has canceled two planned Carnegie Hall appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic — and the rest of his engagements for the next two months — citing inflamed tendons in his shoulders, Carnegie Hall announced.
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Tuesday 11 February 2014
Musikalisches Zusammenspiel Leichter gesagt, als getan
Zusammen zu musizieren ist doch ganz einfach, möchte man meinen. Es gibt einen Einsatz, fertig. Nun haben britische Wissenschaftler herausgefunden, dass synchrones Musizieren das Ergebnis eines diffizilen Anpassungs-Prozesses ist.
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Where Are All The Women And Young People In Classical Music?
For the last decade, classical music has been proclaimed dead, most recently and divisively in Slate last month. Audiences, statistics show, are not only aging, they're vanishing. In 1937, a study of classical music audiences in America yielded
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Monday 10 February 2014
Radio 3's job is to enrich Britain’s cultural fabric
The idea that the BBC's classical music arm chases listeners by copying Classic FM is nonsense , By Roger Wright
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After lockout, ex-Orchestra conductor calls for president's exit
Osmo Vanska, the Minnesota Orchestra conductor and artistic director who left during the orchestra's year-long lockout of musicians, hasn't said yet whether he'll return now that the lockout is over. He has, however, said who he thinks should leave.
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Saturday 8 February 2014
Das SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg erhalten! Kulturverlust für Baden vermeiden!
Erklärung der parteienübergreifenden Initiativgruppe zum Erhalt des SWR-Sinfonieorchesters Baden-Baden und Freiburg
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Friday 7 February 2014
Thursday 6 February 2014
3 Arrests, but Violin Is Not Recovered
Two men and a woman have been arrested in the recent theft of the Stradivarius violin played by the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
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Southbank Centre puts £120m redevelopment on hold
London mayor's intervention in favour of skate park torpedoes proposal, forcing centre to look for alternative funding
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Wednesday 5 February 2014
Keeping Children Safe in Music - inappropriate demonstration of technique
This is the third film in the Keeping Children Safe in Music series, a joint initiative between the Musicians' Union, the NSPCC, MusicLeader and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM). This is an online resource allowing anyone teaching music to children to gain a better understanding of their child protection responsibilities and avoid situations that could lead to accusations of misconduct
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'Japanese Beethoven' admits he is a fraud
A deaf composer who has been dubbed "Japan's Beethoven" has admitted hiring someone else to write his music for nearly two decades.
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Tuesday 4 February 2014
Sexism is rife in classical music
But the sexualised marketing of young women, particularly, in classical music has also now become normalised. Witness (the undoubtedly hugely talented) Yuja Wang's barefoot performances complete with interval dress changes, see the hundreds of PR shots of the kind that keep teenage boys locked in their bedrooms for everyone from Hélène Grimaud to Alison Balsom.
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First female conductor at New National Theatre Tokyo performs 'Madama Butterfly'
“My approach is to just hope that everybody is judging me as a musician and not as a female,” she says. “I think it is a waste of my energy . . . if I have to think, ‘OK, they are judging me because I am a woman.’ It just doesn’t help me.”
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Monday 3 February 2014
Museum in Leipzig nach Umbau wiedereröffnet -
Mendelssohn's house in Leipzig - reopened after renovation.
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Sunday 2 February 2014
Academy: 'Alone' composer 'should have been more cautious'
The Motion Picture Academy released its first statement Saturday since revoking the Oscar nomination of Bruce Broughton, the composer of "Alone Yet Not Alone"
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Peter Maxwell Davies's Tenth Symphony: the story behind his new work - The Guardian (blog)
Max's latest symphony gets its world premiere in London on Sunday night. The work - about creativity, life and death - was written while the composer himself was struggling to survive
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