Tuesday 30 September 2014
Monday 29 September 2014
Can Brian Cox save classical music?
A British conductor has recruited the TV physicist and other famous thinkers to remind us why music matters
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Sunday 28 September 2014
The London Philharmonic Orchestra kicked off their new season in a school hall.
That numbing phrase “community music provision” has never been more enticing.
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Saturday 27 September 2014
Friday 26 September 2014
Clara Haskil à Corsier
On présente parfois des extraits du film qui fut tourné à l’issue de la réception de Clara Haskil dans l’ordre de la Légion d’Honneur, mais plus rarement le document dans sa version longue.
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Thursday 25 September 2014
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Judge refuses injunction in battle of ukulele orchestras
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain wanted to bar United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra from using name pending trademark trial
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Tuesday 23 September 2014
World's first plastic trumpet hits stores
The hi-tech, low cost trumpet, made entirely from plastic, has been developed to encourage more children to take up the 'traditional' instrument
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Riccardo Muti severs ties with the Opera of Rome
Italians dismayed as star conductor pulls out of two productions at company hit by strike threats and protests
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Sunday 21 September 2014
Meester-hoornist André Van Driessche overleden
Met droefheid melden wij u dat André Van Driessche ons op 19 september 2014 heeft verlaten. Hij was decennia lang 1ste hoornsolo van het BRT-Filharmonisch Orkest , de voorloper van Brussels Philharmonic.
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Britain's killing talent, warns Dame Kiri
Veteran soprano attacks 'homogenised' televised opera and live cinema screenings, talent shows and UK visa system that locks out stars of tomorrowOne of the world's greatest opera stars has made an impassioned plea for Britain to stop blocking the flow of young singers into opera houses so that the top quality talents of the future can flower.For almost half a century Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has sung for princes, queens and commoners with a warmth and technical precision that has marked her out. And
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Saturday 20 September 2014
Steven Isserlis on the Trench Cello
There was also a note inside the case from the poet Edmund Blunden, explaining that he had enjoyed having tea with this cellist, and recalling the impromptu concerts in the trenches. Even the bow is extraordinary - it has a hollow bit at the frog, through which you blow to get an A!
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The secret lives of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Who are they, the 89 musicians comprising the TSO?
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Friday 19 September 2014
Thursday 18 September 2014
Take Five with Hilary Hahn, musician
The Baltimore-trained violinist, 34, shares her five favorite ways to experience music
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Wednesday 17 September 2014
Tuesday 16 September 2014
Monday 15 September 2014
Electric guitar overtakes violin in music lesson boom -
The electric guitar has overtaken the violin in a list of most popular musical instruments for children to play, says a music exam board. Some 13% of five- to 17-year-olds play the electric guitar, compared with 12% for the violin.
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Exclusive: UK Exam reforms give 'dead white Germans' lead on the classical music ...
Students will now focus on German composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann
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Sunday 14 September 2014
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor: I'll just die on the podium, with any luck
Sir Neville Marriner, who turned 90 earlier this year, is worried that not enough children are learning classical instruments because today’s parents are too “easy-going”.
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Woman Allegedly Points Rifle At Boy Playing Clarinet Outside - Huffington Post
Woman Allegedly Points Rifle At Boy Playing Clarinet OutsideHuffington PostCLIFTON, Colo. (AP) -- A western Colorado woman is accused of pointing a rifle at several children in a neighboring backyard because she was upset that an 11-year-old boy was playing his clarinet outside. Mesa County sheriff's deputies believe 60-year ...
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Friday 12 September 2014
Thursday 11 September 2014
Conductor 'In Shock' Over Plans to Shutter Danish Orchestra
On Monday, the national broadcasting network of Denmark, DR, announced 161 million kronor ($28 million) in budget cuts and, as a result, the country's only professional chamber orchestra will cease to exist as of Jan. 1, 2015.
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Wednesday 10 September 2014
Artistic differences have forced another breakup of the Australian String Quartet
ASQ chairman Paul Clithero said “despite the board’s best efforts to maintain the current line-up” there were irreconcilable artistic differences between the players.
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Former violinist with tremor regains ability to play while undergoing brain ... - Jerusalem Post
To find the exact region, Elishuv’s cooperation was needed to stop the tremor. As she played the violin – at first with very shaky notes and finally with a normal sound, the surgeons located the affected area. The electrode was inserted through a small hole made in her skull.
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Royal Concertgebouw faces financial catastrophe
Even in spite of the orchestra’s highly acclaimed world tour last year, Concertgebouw reported an eye watering deficit of €863,461 in their 2013 financial summary.
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Musicians Union Ratifies Met Opera Contract - New York Times
Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents the players in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, announced on Tuesday that its members had ratified the labor agreement that the union negotiated with the Metropolitan Opera last month.
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Kulturrat gegen kostenlose Opern im Netz - Geschäftsführer Olaf Zimmermann lehnt Vorschlag aus Berlin strikt ab
Placido Domingo and Anna Netrebko Free and live on the internet? A proposal divides the cultural policy.
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Tuesday 9 September 2014
Silence after the symphony
Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra’s maverick Music Director Han-Na Chang stunned the fraternity by resigning yesterday, right in the middle of a European tour.
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Conductor wins Czech classical music prize
Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek has won the Antonín Dvořák Prize for promoting Czech classical music and the works of Dvořák,
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Monday 8 September 2014
La Scala's catcalling loggionisti continue their restiveness
Roberto Alagna pulls out of Jules Massenet's Werther, blaming the opera house's vociferous upper gallery
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Prom 64: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Rattle review
There are players this good in the UK orchestras; why don't their wind sections sound like this?
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Sunday 7 September 2014
BBCs Proms coverage becomes a question of composure - letters page
A spokeswoman for the mighty BBC tells Charlotte Higgins (Composers condemn ‘patronising’ BBC, 3 September) that the BBC Proms’ producers “have to bear in mind the audience” when choosing which Prom concerts to televise; and that “newer works are often less familiar”. Is someone paid good wages to write that sort of guff?
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Friday 5 September 2014
Thursday 4 September 2014
Historic moment for the Gulf as Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra performs at BBC Proms
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Wednesday 3 September 2014
So You Want to Be An Opera Singer?
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