Wednesday 30 April 2014
Tuesday 29 April 2014
Fans der Klassikwelle laufen Sturm
Bald nur noch im Digitalradio? Mariss Jansons, der Chefdirigent von Chor und Symphonieorchester des BR.
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New York's Met faces 'social rejection of opera'
A union dispute is brewing at New York's Metropolitan Opera, where artists are facing wage cuts. Met manager Peter Gelb tells DW a shift in cultural attitudes is at the root of the opera house's financial troubles.
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Filmmaker to direct English National Opera production of Gilbert and Sullivan classic at Coliseum next year
Mike Leigh once berated directors for failing to understand Gilbert and Sullivan, resulting in "boring, bland, sentimental, self-conscious, often gratuitously camp productions, which entirely miss their point".But now the film director will get his chance to show them how it is done,
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Colorado Symphony, cannabis industry, find harmony with concert series
The connection between classical music and marijuana culture is surprising on its surface. For three centuries, orchestra concerts have largely been formal affairs demanding a strict set of behaviors: No talking, no eating, unwavering attention. Pot users, true or not, are known for a more casual approach to consuming art.
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Prommers won't stand for Pet Shop Boys | @guardianletters
In 1895, Henry Wood founded the Proms to make classical music accessible to a variety of people with the option of cheaper tickets and a large window of opportunity in which to attend. Why then do the Proms now include concerts that have nothing to do with classical music
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Monday 28 April 2014
Orchestra board addressed romance between Vänskä, concertmaster Keefe
A romantic relationship between conductor Osmo Vänskä and Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster Erin Keefe was discussed during negotiations leading up to last week's announcement that Vänskä would return as the orchestra's music director.
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The new ring-tone composers
The Pulitzer prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran enjoyed composing her first ring-tone so much she wrote 12 more. Best of them is chorale-chorale, which circles round a few harmonies in a way which is predictable and surprising at once.
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Sunday 27 April 2014
Maestro's support for Putin may spark protests on great orchestra's tour
The LSO chief conductor's Putin connection has stirred unrest.
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Saturday 26 April 2014
'WW1' flute has charm of its own, says musician
A flute believed to have been created in the trenches during World War One is to be played in public for the first time in at least 50 years.
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Friday 25 April 2014
Composers fight sheet music conspiracy
By now, some young musical theater fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop illegally downloading sheet music from any of his shows. Or anyone’s show, for that matter.
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Thursday 24 April 2014
Wednesday 23 April 2014
If the best musicians get the girls, where are the jazz groupies?
A new university study claims that women are sexually attracted to men with musical ability. Jake Wallis Simons has spotted a flaw in the theory
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Tuesday 22 April 2014
Building an adapter for a trumpet player with an amputation
Ana Lennen lost her left hand in third grade but didn't let the loss of a limb slow her down. Engineers from Laser Abilities and Keystone Solutions worked with her to build a device that will aid in playing the trumpet.
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Saturday 19 April 2014
LeoGroup purchases multi-million dollar Stradivarius violin with digital currency bitcoin
The violin was sold by New York firm Carpenter Fine Violins in the landmark deal
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Friday 18 April 2014
Musicians Union Slams Lionsgate Over 'Draft Day' Offshoring
The AFM is pressing the case that U.S. films and television programs should be scored domestically, not overseas, especially when they receive U.S. production tax credits.
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Joseph Kerman obituary
As a writer, the American musicologist Joseph Kerman, who has died aged 89, brought the highest standards of scholarly rigour and precision to his chosen musical specialisms.
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Thursday 17 April 2014
Pilibhit flute makers wish to be heard over political din
The tradition of flute makers has survived highs and lows over two centuries but is inching towards its end due to political apathy and the administration's failure to organise the sector.
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Tuesday 15 April 2014
Costs threaten Bergen orchestra
Costs threaten Bergen orchestraViews and News from NorwayThe Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, BFO) revealed on Tuesday its pension costs are NOK 60 million (USD 10 million) higher than estimated, and it needs to dramatically reduce its activities.
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Monday 14 April 2014
Neville Marriner: 'My wife has told me to keep June free'
'When you're geriatric," says Neville Marriner with an amiable laugh, "everybody wants to be there when you collapse." His wife, Molly, joins in the laughter as we take tea in the couple's flat in Kensington, London, but at least one of us is feeling a little uneasy about this turn in the conversation.
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The Minnesota Orchestra’s main fundraising gala, September’s Symphony Ball, has been canceled.
The co-chairs of the event resigned last week, saying in a letter to board chair Gordon Sprenger that the current climate at the orchestra did not lend itself to celebration.
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Sunday 13 April 2014
Brutaler Dieb bricht Opern-Dirigent die Nase
Direktor Anthony Bramall wirkte gestern Mittag relativ gefasst, obwohl die Nase gebrochen ist und seine Dirigentenhand schmerzt
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Saturday 12 April 2014
Side by Side with the Columbus Symphony
Approximately 50 amateur musicians had the opportunity to rehearse with the orchestra and conductor on the stage of the Ohio Theatre, sitting and playing next to a professional musician
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Discord at young stars' orchestra as trustees call for a change of tune
In a statement issued last night, the National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain (NCO) refuted the allegations, explaining all recent changes had been necessary to ensure the orchestra was “fit for purpose”
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Vienna Philharmonic Finds Owners of a Nazi Gift
For decades it lay hidden away in a storage space of the august Vienna Philharmonic, a 172-year-old institution that is one of the cultural pillars of Europe. Now that painting has come back to light, the latest example of the orchestra's long struggle
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Friday 11 April 2014
Thursday 10 April 2014
Let's hit Putin where it hurts all artists must boycott Russia
Russia is a profoundly artistic country, so a blanket refusal to tour work there would send a clear message to Putin over its anti-gay laws and military aggression
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Vivaldi musicians stage energetic play-off
Have you ever seen an all-female quartet play classical music whilst doing acrobatics? We had not either until we watched Salut Salon in action. This all-female quartet performs classical music like no other group around.
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Wednesday 9 April 2014
Remembering John Shirley-Quirk: the passing of a great British voice
Within that community of English voices who defined the sound-world of Benjamin Britten from the 1960s onwards, one of the most admirable, eloquent and utterly distinctive was the bass-baritone of John Shirley-Quirk – who has just died at the age of 82, leaving very few now from that golden era still here to bear witness to it.
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Tuesday 8 April 2014
Saturday 5 April 2014
Friday 4 April 2014
Class, race and classical music
Western classical music – performers and audiences alike – is still an almost exclusively white concern. What can be done?
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The world of violin maker Florian Leonhard
Violin maker Florian Leonhard talks to Ellie Pithers about music, his childhood, and matchmaking
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Thursday 3 April 2014
The Mozart problem
In a famous song praising the genius of Gustav Mahler and Walter Gropius, the 37-year-old Tom Lehrer quipped, “It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”
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Opera union files second NLRB complaint
The labor union representing singers, chorus members and production personnel for the San Diego Opera filed a new charge with the National Labor Relations Board over the pending closure of the opera company.
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Wednesday 2 April 2014
The orchestra you paint then play
BBC NewsDan Simmons looks at the potential of painted circuits using conductive ink. The technology allows you to quite literally paint an orchestra and then play the instruments.
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Tuesday 1 April 2014
King's College Choir announces major change
The high voices in the choir have been provided by boys for more than five centuries. In future, high vocal parts will be performed by altos breathing helium.
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