musicalchairs: August 2015

Monday 31 August 2015

Contract negotiations underway between Grand Rapids Symphony and musicians

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Dead woman named as concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko

The 38-year-old mother died on Sunday shortly after police found her at a house on Culcheth Lane following reports of an assault.

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Sunday 30 August 2015

Two Aspen music school students killed in car crash

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Saturday 29 August 2015

A saga of lost violins, from Barcelona to (finally) St. Louis

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George Cleve, San Jose Symphony conductor, dead at 79

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Barenboim to take Berlin orchestra to Iran despite protests from Israel

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People are confusing computer-generated music with the works of J.S. Bach

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Friday 21 August 2015

Scotland’s national orchestra launches RSNO Composers’ Hub

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Tuesday 18 August 2015

BMW unterstützt das West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

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Dima Slobodeniouk appointed Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra

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Does the Minnesota Orchestra have sustainable labor contracts?

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How Asian Youth Orchestra changed a Vietnamese refugee's life - South China Morning Post

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Taking the Starch Out of Orchestra Attire

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Thursday 13 August 2015

Don't believe your ears: the best classical music hoaxes

From the devious aristocrat to the invention of an entire genre, we pick some of classical music’s best hoaxes and hoaxersIt’s not just literature and visual art....

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Grammy-winning trumpeter resigns school post amid donations probe

WWL-TV reported in May that Mayfield and his business partner, Ronald Markham, had changed the rules of the city's public library support foundation to steer at least $863,000 to their New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

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Are Classical Music Competitions Good for the Kids Who Play in Them? - Wall Street Journal

Competitions for teenage musicians keep growing in popularity, but do they hurt or help the young artists who participate in them?

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Opera performer sings through his own brain surgery

A Slovenian opera singer shared video of himself singing Schubert while undergoing brain surgery in the Netherlands. Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne posted a video to YouTube showing him performing the first and last couplets of Schubert's "Gute Nacht ...

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'Take that, Mozart': BBC Ibiza Prom is most downloaded - Telegraph.co.uk

The special dance music-themed concert, which saw Tong lead the Heritage Orchestra and raised eyebrows among traditionalists when it was first announced, has been most listened-to event of the 35 Proms so far, beating Bach, Beethoven and Debussy ..

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Commuter Stephen Tillyer denies stealing viola worth £300000 from train - Kent Online

He allegedly told the officer: “This is a mistake. I haven't stolen anything. I picked something up on the train.” PC Tomlin said Tillyer then took him to a vehicle in the car park where the viola and its case and the schoolboy's rucksack were found in ...

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Wednesday 12 August 2015

Seoul Philharmonic in 'growing pains' - Korea Times

CEO Choe Heung-sik said Tuesday he is confident the orchestra will grow into a world-class one once it overcomes the growing pains it is currently experiencing.

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LA Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla is promoted to associate conductor - Los Angeles Times

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla is having perhaps the best year in her budding career. After a stellar debut at the Hollywood Bowl last year, the 2012 winner of Salzburg, Austria's, young conductor competition has been promoted from assistant conductor ...

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Monday 10 August 2015

Ivory ban impact on orchestras and musicians

What if you do not have time to obtain a document for your instrument inasmuch as it may take up to sixty days? Welcome to the life of a traveling musician in the 21st century.

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Maestro Ozawa cancels opera job after breaking hip

Ozawa fell in a bathroom at a Tokyo hospital where he was staying due to a common cold, Kyodo News agency said.

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Saturday 8 August 2015

Rare $5m violin stolen 35 years ago in Cambridge to be returned

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Friday 7 August 2015

Bernard Ingham so wrong on The Rite

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Cultural affairs for cultivated people

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Operating theatre teams should review use of background music, study suggests

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The Proms, BBC's Classical Music Festival, Is All the More Important as austerity looms

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The surgeon's cut: what do doctors listen to in the operating theatre?

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The night the music stopped

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Thursday 6 August 2015

Aspen Music Fest students offer help on the Audition Trail

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Salvaging tones at a burned museum

Employees of the Ringve Museum were sifting through the rubble Tuesday morning of the historic building that’s been Norway’s premier showplace for centuries of art and antique musical instruments.

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