Monday 27 July 2015

What's Behind Stagefright? - The New Yorker

Stagefright has been aptly described as “self-poisoning by adrenaline.” In response to stress, the adrenal glands pump the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline) into the bloodstream, causing the body to shift into a state of high arousal.

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Sir Andrew Davis to lead Melbourne Symphony Orchestra until 2019

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has confirmed the maestro will extend his original four-year tenure to lead the orchestra until 2019, parallel to his work with Chicago's Lyric Opera and the Toronto and BBC Symphony Orchestras.

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The Santa Fe Opera: How to build a $22 million per year American opera factory

It recently leased rights to a local phone service provider to install cell towers on the property. "That's a little income stream that not many opera companies have," said MacKay...

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New Bayreuth Wagner museum confronts family Nazi ties head on

Revamped and doubled in size at a cost of 20 million euros, the museum for the first time displays Wagner's anti-Semitic screeds, which he published in his youth anonymously, then under his own name before he died in 1883.

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Saturday 25 July 2015

Renowned conductor Joseph Cullen jailed for abusing boys

A Grammy Award-winning conductor has been jailed for 12 months for sexually abusing two young boys in Glasgow. Joseph Cullen groomed his victims in the late 1970s and 80s while involved with choirs at the city's St Aloysius Church and St Andrew's ...

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Friday 24 July 2015

Take that, Take That! Violinist André Rieu sets new music-concert record at UK cinemas

The immaculately coiffured fiddler took £1.1m at British cinemas this week, making him more popular than One Direction and Take That

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Montreal musician and her cello left behind after Air Canada ticketing mishap

In the end, the journey that should have been a five hour direct flight took Stewart nearly 22 hours. Stewart said the only compensation she was offered for the ordeal was a sandwich.

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Hallé orchestral concerts deserve the audience's full attention - The Guardian

The GuardianHallé orchestral concerts deserve the audience's full attentionThe GuardianMany concert-goers, like me, will be disappointed that the Hallé is planning to allow patrons at its orchestral concerts to come and go as they please, and to bring drinks into the auditorium (Report, theguardian.com, 21 July). This strikes me as a ...Hallé Orchestra have website redesigned by We are ADManchester Evening NewsWe are AD to conduct redesign of The Hallé's websiteProlific Northall 3 news articles 

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Tuesday 21 July 2015

Air Malta has apologised to a woman who booked two seats for her and her cello, only to find that the instrument’s seat had been sold when she arrived at the gate.

Check-in staff told Ms Swallow to go the gate and try convince someone to give up their seat for a later flight, to no avail.

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Halle Orchestra lets audience set ticket price for show

Audience members will be invited to pay what they like for what they hear at an upcoming Halle Orchestra concert...

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard opens a world of imagination in Ligeti's piano music

Another week, another site that demonstrates a brilliant use of the possibilities of the web to enrich musical experience in hitherto-undreamed-of ways...

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Virtual reality headsets put audience 'on stage' with Adelaide Symphony

Audiences in South Australia's capital will wear virtual reality headsets this week to see and hear ASO performances, with a promise that music lovers will find it a richer concert experience...

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Heather Mills teaches daughter because Sir Paul McCartney can't read music

Speaking this weekend, she said: 'I think she's got the best of both of us, we're both very musical. I taught her the saxophone because her father can't read music, so I do all the music teaching.

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Friday 17 July 2015

Composer John Rutter on turning 70, writing for the Queen, and why he wears his heart on his sleeve



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Radio France : Mathieu Gallet envisage 350 départs volontaires



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Violin section cancelled at 2015 Beijing International Music Competition



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Interview: Violinist David Chan, a member of Local 802 since 1999, is the concertmaster of the MET Orchestra and an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician.



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Conductor Mark Elder: 'I owe Australia my career'



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Tonight one of Covent Garden's best-loved productions bows out after 41 years. Pamela Binns, 84, has been in it from the start



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Sunday 12 July 2015

Jon Vickers obituary

One of the greatest operatic tenors of his generation whose technique and imaginative vocal colouring helped him transcend the merely melodramatic...

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Keeping neighbours awake, violinist Nicola Benedetti

The businessman lives directly beneath Ms Benedetti, 27, and her boyfriend, German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, 29, in a block of flats in West London. And he has objected to the noise. The two sides remain on friendly terms and the musicians have agreed to a curfew.

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Saturday 11 July 2015

Artists create music for masterpieces



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Ludovic Morlot Extends Contract With Seattle Symphony - The New York Times

The dynamic French conductor Ludovic Morlot has extended his contract as music director of the Seattle Symphony for two more years through August 2019, the orchestra announced Friday.

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John Berry steps down from English National Opera

Berry, whose artistic brilliance is admired but whose people skills are questioned by his peers, leaves after a particularly successful season...

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Friday 10 July 2015

When jazz collided with physics

A team of scientists at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland has turned live data from an experiment at the LHC into music, and a jazz pianist has been playing along.

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Thursday 9 July 2015

Michele Zukovsky, clarinetist with L.A. Phil for five decades, is retiring ... - Los Angeles Times

Zukovsky joined the L.A. Phil in 1961 when she was in her late teens and often played alongside her father, the late clarinetist Kalman Bloch, who was a former section principal. She remains one of the longest-serving musicians with the orchestra.

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Hear the painting? How about seeing the music?

The National Gallery’s new Soundscapes exhibition puts masterpieces to music so visitors can experience them in a new way. We boldly go where no curator has gone before with unexpected musical and visual pairings that are guaranteed to distort any listening experience

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Utah Symphony's First Female Conductor



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Wednesday 8 July 2015

Royal harpist who ran off with opera singer is replaced



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Peter Donohoe (2nd right), a member of the Tchaikovsky Competition piano jury, has written the following analysis for Slipped Disc



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James S. Marcus, Longtime Metropolitan Opera Guild Board Member and Former Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, has Died



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Debbie Wiseman appointed Classic FM's new Composer in Residence



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Christian Thielemann zu Bayreuth und Berlin "Das etwas größere Tortenstück"



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Interrogated for playing the wrong tune



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Thursday 2 July 2015

Future Berlin Philharmonic conductor subject of antisemitic descriptions

The newly announced future conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic reportedly has refused to give further interviews after two major German media outlets published antisemitic comments about him.

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Thielemann makes history as first music director for Bayreuth – with free parking

The controversy-torn Wagner festival has appointed Christian Thielemann as its first independent music director. Unusually, this news emerged in the car park...

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Wednesday 1 July 2015

New scientific study shows that singing and attending classical music concerts physically reduces stress

A new scientific study based on research by the Royal College of Music's Centre for Performance Science has proven what singers and those who regularly attend classical music concerts have long known: that classical music physically reduces stress.

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Nudity, Nazis and nipple-slicing: 12 controversial opera productions

A production of William Tell at Covent Garden prompted walkouts with a five-minute rape scene. It’s not the first time an opera has stirred outrage The Royal Opera House rape scene disgusted its audience. But it did not move them...

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