Monday 29 February 2016
Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay 2015: Alternative Sibelius
The £2,000 prize for the best arts journalism essay in 2015 has been awarded to Leah Broad for her reappraisal of the great Finnish composer, in a review of a concert marking his 150th anniversary
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Saturday 27 February 2016
Friday 26 February 2016
Choristers at English National Opera vote to strike
ENO’s world-renowned choir will refuse to sing during London performance in protest at plans to cut pay by 25% and axe jobs
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10 Times Classical Music Was Used In Wrestling
For the most part, the sport is derided by elements of the mainstream media as uncultured, banal nonsense with no artistic merit whatsoever. On the contrary, classical music is often viewed on the opposite end of the spectrum, an urbane and erudite ...
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Ulster Orchestra's funding secured as new managing director is unveiled
Ulster Orchestra's funding secured as new managing director is unveiled. Mr Wigley said: "Great countries and cities have great orchestras and this is certainly true of the Ulster Orchestra, and with its dynamic chief conductor Rafael Payare it is playing its part in building Northern Ireland's bright image across the world
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Thursday 25 February 2016
Welsh National Opera worried over long-term funding - BBC News
Arts companies face cuts of up to 3.5% to the public money they will receive from April, the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has announced. Larger companies like Welsh National Opera (WNO) and National Theatre Wales (NTW) will see budgets fall.
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Wednesday 24 February 2016
New resident conductor for SF Symphony
Christian Reif has been named resident conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and music director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra beginning in September
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A Composer and His Wife: Creativity Through Kink
Georg Friedrich Haas, whose powerfully emotional, politically charged music and explorations of microtonality make him one of the world’s leading composers. His work had brought widespread acclaim, but his personal life was troubled,
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Musician reunited with rare French horn that was stolen in 2010 in California
That person, from New York, then worked with Kristi's sister and police in Orange County to set up a sting to get the French horn back to its rightful owner.
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Berliner Staatsoper bekommt keine Untertitel
Die Untertitel im Sitz des Vordermanns - in der Komischen Oper Berlin ist das Standard. Auch die Berliner Staatsoper sollte solch ein System bekommen, für knapp eine Million Euro. Inzwischen ist klar, die Untertitelungsanlage würde fast doppelt so viel kosten - zu teuer. Ganz ohne Titel müssen Opernbesucher trotzdem nicht auskommen.
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Conductor Zhang Xian carries baton for women
With classical music becoming more popular in China, Zhang said, the demand for conductors is increasing.
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Instruments on planes: Musicians call on the EU Council to follow the EU Parliament!
You thought that the EU was fair to musicians traveling on planes with their instruments? Wrong! Here’s why.
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Tuesday 23 February 2016
Conductor Fabio Luisi's Passion for...Perfume?
Fabio Luisi is currently music director of the Zurich Opera and principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, and will become principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony in 2017. He develops perfumes in laboratories in Switzerland
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Ask the Experts: how can an adult amateur violinist progress beyond practising for exams?
The dilemma After nine years as a late starter, I'm stuck at ABRSM Grade 7 violin. Grade 8 is technically challenging, and after failing dismally twice I'm wondering whether I have a psychological block to passing at this level.
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Tarisio auction house launches new division for the violin trade
auction house Tarisio is launching T2, a new division designed for the violin trade, focusing on speculative and restorable items. Sales will be held six times a year, available to view at the company's New York offices.
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Mozart-Salieri work to be displayed
Due to the enormous worldwide interest in the recently discovered musical collaboration between Wolfgang Mozart and Antonio Salieri, the piece will be displayed to the public for two weeks, from Feb. 26 to March 11, at the Czech Museum of Music.
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Monday 22 February 2016
Saturday 20 February 2016
Award-winning young musician hit with noise abatement order as millionaire complains of 'torturous' piano playing
One of the piano players living next door to his £5 million home in Kensington was James Carrabino, 17, a finalist of Young Musician of the Year.
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Friday 19 February 2016
Ethel M. Smyth, Opera Composer, Met a Chorus of Critical Disdain in 1903
One of the works to be performed in the new season of the Metropolitan Opera, it was announced this week, was composed by a woman. And the big deal is? It will be just the second opera by a female composer to ever be performed at the Met. The first was in 1903.
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Thursday 18 February 2016
Went to the symphony and a wedding broke out
The surprise for unsuspecting “guests” was that this was the real thing.
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HSO Selects Adam Boyles For Assistant Conductor Position
A month after its Battle of the Batons concerts, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra announced its new Assistant Conductor: Adam Kerry Boyles, the current Director of Orchestras at M.I.T. in Cambridge and music director of the Brookline Symphony Orchestra.
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Wednesday 17 February 2016
Tuesday 16 February 2016
Can Technology Save Classical Music?
The BSO loans patrons iPads loaded with multimedia content and seats them behind large flat screens that give audience members the same view of conductor Andris Nelsons that the musicians have.
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Monday 15 February 2016
Saturday 13 February 2016
Beautiful, young Met soprano, Kristine Opolais has a darker past she wants to share
“Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying, they ask, ‘Did you study somewhere to be an actress?’ ” she says. “No, this is life. That’s why I think I don’t want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.”
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For The FoCo Symphony, The Trouble With The Timpani Is That It's Rented
That’s the question the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra is asking after spending decades renting several of its larger, more expensive instruments.
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Here's a way to make the English National Opera truly national
Cheap tickets and touring could solve the crisis
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Friday 12 February 2016
Violin made at Braintree PoW camp restored
It is understood the craftsman was unable to take the violin back to Germany after the war, so he handed it to a British officer as a thank you
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Mark Wigglesworth: save the people's opera
I do not know anyone in opera who does not wish for prejudiced preconceptions to be destroyed, and many spend a great deal of time, talent and thought trying to do so. English National Opera was in fact created specifically for this purpose.
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Dead cyclist a member of Chch orchestra
A 52-year-old man fatally struck by a train while cycling in Christchurch this morning was a member of the city's symphony orchestra.
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Thursday 11 February 2016
Boston Classical Orchestra to close and new ensemble to begin
The Boston Classical Orchestra, whose concerts in Faneuil Hall have made it a vibrant fixture of the city’s performing arts scene for more than three decades, will be filing for bankruptcy and plans to cease operations.
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The Unlikely Story of How the Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra Came Back to Life
Five years after declaring bankruptcy, the newly renamed Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra is not only on budget, it’s traveling to perform on the Neighbor Islands again, hosting internationally renowned guest musicians and attracting new audiences. What happened?
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At 100, orchestra has a midlife crisis
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its centennial on February 11. Does that mean it’s arrived?
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Wednesday 10 February 2016
Italian opera singer wins prestigious music prize
Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Swedish music producer Max Martin have been announced as this year's winners of Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize.
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Danish National Chamber Orchestra is rescued
Danmarks Underholdningsorkester får støtte fra tre fonde. Dermed kan orkestret fortsætte frem til og med 2018.
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Tuesday 9 February 2016
At last you can sing 'Happy Birthday’ for free (almost)
Warner Music has reportedly agreed to a court settlement that will place 'Happy Birthday' in the public domain following a three-year legal battle with a filmmaker.
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This is what it looks like when you send electric shocks through a musician’s body
This composition sends by Michaela Davies sends electric shocks through a performer’s body to alter their performance.
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Jack McCaw Memorial Concert
7.30 pm Wednesday 10 February 2016 at the Royal College of Music, London
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Cellist Thomas Mesa wins 2016 Sphinx Competition $50000 first prize
Senior division second prize, worth $20,000, was awarded to 20-year-old violinist Annelle Gregory, while third prize went to 21-year-old cellist Guilherme Nardello Monegatto.
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Monday 8 February 2016
English National Opera singers to vote on strike action
Equity union says proposed pay and job cuts amount to ‘cultural vandalism’ that threatens company’s artistic future. Choristers at the English National Opera are to be balloted for industrial action after being threatened with redundancies and what their union called an unsustainable pay cut. Equity said ENO management wanted to renegotiate contracts which would result in the the 44-member chorus getting a 25% pay cut.
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Bishop of Taunton taking up the saxophone for Lent
The Right Reverend Ruth Worsley will be marking the Christian festival, traditionally associated with discipline and self-denial, by practising every day for 40 days.
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Brain damaged violinist makes music for first time in 27 years with mind-reading technology
Violinist Rosemary Johnson has spent the last 27 years coming to terms with the reality she would never make music again, following a devastating car crash. A member of the Welsh National Opera Orchestra she was destined to become a world class musician before the road accident in 1988, which left her in a coma for seven months.
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Sunday 7 February 2016
Saturday 6 February 2016
Local opera company struggling - and struggling - to pay its artists
Many of the artists who made it happen weren't paid at the end of the festival. More than four months later, about 27 remain unpaid. Freelance Philadelphia musicians say this is fairly unusual. Because they worked on more than one production, many of them are out at least $2,000.
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San Diego misses out on conductor
Recall that time when Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla came to visit the San Diego Symphony and conducted Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring? She was maybe, possibly, a candidate to be the next music director in San Diego. Not any more.
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Alma Deutscher: the 10-year-old who is making the music world listen
Simon Rattle was ‘bowled over’, Stephen Fry compared her to Mozart. Deutscher is a brilliant performer, but it is her composing that has got the connoisseurs talking.
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OSO conductor David Currie stepping down
“After 24 years at the helm of the OSO, it's time for me to step aside and to welcome a new conductor and artistic leader to the podium,” Currie said in a release.
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Friday 5 February 2016
Thursday 4 February 2016
2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition names 24 shortlisted candidates
Led by president Nikolaj Znaider, the contest takes place from 16-22 April in Denmark. The first prize winner will receive a cash award of €12,000 ...
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Great Irish tenor's Dublin home for €3.6m
A landmark house in Booterstown, south Dublin, where tenor John McCormack once lived, is for sale for the first time in 40 years.
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Official: After 71 years, Jane is now the longest serving orchestral player
This week marked the eighty-something birthday of Jane Little and her 71st year in the bass section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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Wednesday 3 February 2016
Nations no longer matter in classical music
In reviewing the most recent San Diego Symphony concert, I made something of a big deal about countries of origin not being important in classical music. While that is true when it comes to performing or listening to classical music, it is not true when it comes to the composition of classical music — at least in the past. Current composers appear to have abandoned notions of a national sound.
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A broken trumpet from a sunken warship holds its secrets from WWII
The old, bent trumpet is dripping with water as Shanna Daniel lifts it from its basin in the conservation lab at the Washington Navy Yard.
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How Marin Alsop's classes for young women conductors are changing the face of the profession
One female conductor I recently interviewed suggested that a greater number of women conductors could potentially transform the profession's nature, making it less despotic and more collaborative and nurturing. Alsop, though, isn't so sure.
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Tuesday 2 February 2016
This Huge Cat's Cradle Embodies the Great Fugues of Bach
Gabriel Calatrava began thinking about how he might design a life-sized cat’s cradle for the performance. It would need to be big (the stage is 30 feet by 18 feet), and it would need to be stretchy. It would also need to move.
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From the classical archive: György Ligeti 1974 interview
In a rare interview, Ligeti talks to the Guardian’s Christopher Ford about composition and the use of his music in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Monday 1 February 2016
Bach to the future: A unique take on Goldberg Variations
Glasgow-based string orchestra Scottish Ensemble and Swedish dance company Andersson Dance have created one of the most ambitious versions to date.
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Inside Tbilisi's restored historic opera house
The historic opera house in the Georgian capital Tbilisi has opened its doors after a six-year renovation.
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