musicalchairs: October 2014

How an effort to popularize classical music undermines what makes orchestras great.

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Raphael Ravenscroft, Baker Street saxophonist, dies aged 60

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Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Memphis Symphony musicians agree to one-year pay cut to help financially struggling performance arts organization reduce expenses

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'Klinghoffer' Protests Heat Up Ahead of Met Opera Opening

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In the Steps of Stradivari

Craft and Commerce Meet in an Italian Town Famous for Its Violins

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New York Philharmonic to Audition a Concertmaster From Houston

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Ulster Orchestra: Don't let the music die - Sir James Galway's appeal to Stormont

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The most important decision the Grand Rapids Symphony ever makes

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Monday, 20 October 2014

Rudy Giuliani expected to join protest against Met's Klinghoffer opera

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Paris Opera expels veiled woman during performance

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Saturday, 18 October 2014

Chicago Symphony Orchestra gala raises $1.5 million

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Top Florida Orchestra leader leaves for new role

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Friday, 17 October 2014

The PKF - Prague Philharmonia Announces Appointment of Conductor

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Greece honours Maria Callas with arts academy in former Athens home

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Met Opera Director Peter Gelb Responds To controversy surrounding "The Death of Klinghoffer"

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Watch: musician serenades walrus with flute in Crimea

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Chetham's violin teacher in court over rape charge

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Thursday, 16 October 2014

Spotify study: Ohio State listens to the most classical music

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The drunk conductor who ruined Rachmaninov's career

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Salvatore Accardo: il licenziamento dei musicisti dell'Opera di Roma? Un tragico errore

"Gli sprechi in quel teatro sono altrove: basta cercarli"

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This App Translates The Meaning Of Classical Music

But psst, we can still see you playing Angry Birds from the balcony.

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Wednesday, 15 October 2014

The culture minister who doesn't listen to Radio 3: Ed Vaizey says he prefers Classic FM's 'lovely music'

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Glasgow MTV EMAs star Ed Sheeran: music fans have little regard for songs they have been given for free

if you don't put value on your music, no one else is

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Venezuela's 'Sistema' Brings Classical Music to Maternity Wards

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The Ulster Orchestra: facing extinction - The Guardian (blog)

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Eine Kleine goes viral…. you’ll soon see why

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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

What does the future hold for CBSO conductor Edward Gardner?

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‘I was lured to Atlanta without a contract’

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Monday, 13 October 2014

Stravinsky, lap dancers, and all that jazz open New World Symphony season

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Live classical 'off-putting' says Jonny Greenwood

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has said classical music concerts have had the excitement "squeezed out of them".

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Cellisten Mats Rondin död

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Rita Shane, a Met Soprano Known for Range and Intensity, Dies at 78 - New York Times

New York TimesRita Shane, a Met Soprano Known for Range and Intensity, Dies at 78New York TimesRita Shane, a dramatic coloratura soprano admired for the range, flexibility and size of her voice, as well as the intensity she brought to her performances, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 78. The cause was pancreatic and liver ...

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Sunday, 12 October 2014

Sunday school: Atlanta’s icy silence is broken by a supercool rap - by Norman Lebrecht

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Randy Weeks dead at 59: He brought Broadway to Colorado

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Hong Kong Philharmonic conductor cancels two concerts due to shoulder injury

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Saturday, 11 October 2014

A kick in the crotchets for Belfast’s Ulster Orchestra

One of the most remarkable acts of people power I witnessed during the Troubles happened at a concert in the Ulster Hall. The Ulster Orchestra was giving a concert, and during the interval a bomb warning was phoned through. Its then Chief Executive, David Byers came on stage and told the audience they would have to leave. The audience refused to go.

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The Art of Wooing Commitment-Phobes

As Subscriptions Fall, Orchestras Aim Higher

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Friday, 10 October 2014

Spanish practices: Maestro is reappointed over musicians’ opposition

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Ulster Orchestra facing the axe 'within weeks' due to cash crisis

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Thursday, 9 October 2014

Save the Orchestra and Choir of Rome Opera House!

On October 2nd 2014 the Board of Directors of the Rome Opera Theatre, headed by the Mayor of Rome, dismissed all the musicians of the Chorus and Orchestra! We are asking Mayor Marino to revoke this decision! The group firing, one of a kind in the history of Italian theatres, places the blame for the effects of several administrations’ disastrous management on 182 musicians.

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What The Evolution Of Violins And Plants Have In Common

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra struggles during second lockout in two years

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Whiskey-Rigged Organ Offers Sensory Symphony

Oxford’s Professor Charles Spence helped to establish musical notes to match specific whiskey flavors, from which specifications organ pipes were constructed.

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Air Canada reverses its policy on the transportation of violas as carry-on baggage

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Named: The great composer who wrote Frère Jacques by Norman Lebrecht

A new French biography of an anniversary composer delivers a musicological bombshell.

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Wednesday, 8 October 2014

David Yarbrough, Eleanor Roosevelt High School's orchestra director, will be bringing his lifelong love of music to a new stage, as the first black concertmaster of the Prince George's Philharmonic.

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Vienna Philharmonic to Invest Nilsson Prize Money in Archive

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New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Music Director to Step Down

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The State opera company has dumped a planned performance of Carmen because it features smoking, putting it at odds with a new sponsorship deal with Healthway.

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Jimi Hendrix [Crime Scene] video | Cello Haze by Fernando Nina

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Haridwar gets to see 'World Peace Violin'

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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Anush Hovhannisyan wins young opera singers international competition

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Kevin Ogilvie no longer homeless after help from the principal flautist with Symphony Nova Scotia

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Thief steals 150-year-old, 6-foot-tall bass from classical musician's car

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What will Daniele Gatti bring to world's best symphony orchestra?

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Danes call mass demonstration to protest orchestra abolition

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The 8 noisiest things in classical music - Classic FM

The 8 noisiest things in classical musicClassic FMThe charity event of the year, Global's Make Some Noise, is almost upon us, so we take a look at the loudest, biggest, whoppingest noises in classical music, from epic fortes to ridiculously large organs. And cannons. Lots of cannons. Tchaikovsky's ...

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Monday, 6 October 2014

Lawyer turned conductor enjoys spectacular rise in music career

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Online petition against the disbandment of Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Annulliamo la decisione del Consiglio di amministrazione del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma che ha LICENZIATO in data 2 ottobre 2014 tutti gli artisti dell’Orchestra e del Coro!

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