Thursday 31 July 2014
Wednesday 30 July 2014
The man who plays French horn with his toes
The 23-year-old German recently became an ambassador for the One-Handed Musical Instrument Trust (OHMI), which helps fund the development of adapted or specially designed instruments for musicians with one hand and other limb differences.
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Tuesday 29 July 2014
Former teacher at Chetham’s School of Music charged with rape
Malcolm Layfield, 62, a violinist and music professor, previously taught at Chetham’s School of Music in the 1980s and 1990s. He then moved to the Royal Northern College of Music
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Sunday 27 July 2014
Saturday 26 July 2014
Both Israelis and Palestinians are losers in this conflict by Daniel Barenboim
There can be no military solution. Both sides need to acknowledge the other’s suffering and their rights
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Friday 25 July 2014
Man gets 3 ½ years prison for violin theft
A Milwaukee man whose stun gun was used in the theft of a $5 million Stradivarius violin in January has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison.
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Wednesday 23 July 2014
Universal boss slams ‘unwelcoming, elitist’ classical music concerts
Max Hole singles out Royal Festival Hall for criticism in attack on live classical music
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David Pountney awarded Austrian Cross of Honour
Welsh National Opera Artistic Director and Chief Executive David Pountney will be awarded with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class at this year’s Bregenz Festival.
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Monday 21 July 2014
Rod Franks, distinguished LSO trumpet player, has been killed in a car crash.
Franks was returning home from watching golf’s Open Championship at Hoylake in Liverpool when the car in which he was a passenger was involved in a multi-vehicle pile-up on the motorway in Nottinghamshire.
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Friday 18 July 2014
Is a $1.5 million violin pool the newest thing in luxury?
A $1.5 million custom swimming pool has turned the backyard of New York mansion into a musical masterpiece.
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Thursday 17 July 2014
Wednesday 16 July 2014
Monday 14 July 2014
Frances Andrade inquest: Violinist died after not guilty court instructions
A violinist took a fatal overdose after learning the jury in the trial of the man who sexually abused her was instructed by the judge to find not guilty verdicts for several charges.
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Sunday 13 July 2014
What Do Opera Singers Actually Get Paid? - Huffington Post
I always knew that singing in the chorus at the Metropolitan Opera was a lucrative job compared to a lot of other career paths one could take in this field, but I wasn't aware that the pay was (if we are to believe the New York Times) between $100,000 and $200,000 per year, when you include things like overtime, pensions, health insurance, etc.
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Lorin Maazel, legendary conductor, dies at 84 - Los Angeles Times
Maazel died Sunday in Virginia of complications from pneumonia, according to a news release from Castleton Festival officials. He had been at his home, Castleton Farms, preparing for his annual music festival, according to organizers.
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Friday 11 July 2014
Finance boss defrauded opera house out of £250000 to fund lavish lifestyle.
Paul Leighton, 48, began defrauding the Buxton Opera House in Derbyshire five days after starting work there and spent a year siphoning cash into his own account.
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Thursday 10 July 2014
Conductor and Concertmaster salaries in the US revealed by Drew McManus
For the average music director, the 2011/12 season was a good year financially and from a historical perspective, it was the first time that average annual compensation broke the half-million threshold. Although the average concertmaster in the list of those reported experienced an average increase of 3.69 percent, that figure was skewed a bit by a handful of very large increases among a few of the top earners.
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Wednesday 9 July 2014
Sunday 6 July 2014
Friday 4 July 2014
Thursday 3 July 2014
Wednesday 2 July 2014
Jessye Norman: Dress size has nothing to do with opera singing
Not only am I sitting across a table from the fabled operatic soprano Jessye Norman in the house's Royal Retiring Room but, as an added bonus, the strains of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda are floating in from the auditorium
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58 groups lose Arts Council funding
England's theatres, orchestras, galleries and museums learn how much Arts Council England will be giving them in 2015-18
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Tuesday 1 July 2014
Big Flute Challenge call
The current world record is held in Japan and was achieved by 3,742 flautists in 2011.
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