Two players in Musica Aeterna, an ensemble directed by Teodor Currentzis, were involved in a two-car collision on the road from Perm to Ekaterinburg. Vladimir Garushka, an outstanding horn player from Minsk, was killed on the spot. He was 31.
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Thursday 31 March 2016
Tuesday 29 March 2016
This is what happens to a musician’s brain when they play Bach
Violinist Jennifer Koh was monitored by Duke University scientists while she contemplated the huge technical challenge of playing Bach.
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This is what happens to a musician’s brain when they play Bach
Violinist Jennifer Koh was monitored by Duke University scientists while she contemplated the huge technical challenge of playing Bach.
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Monday 28 March 2016
Saturday 26 March 2016
Friday 25 March 2016
Sir Peter Moores - obituary
Yet Peter Moores’s aims were the opposite of elitist. He began his philanthropy in the 1950s, helping struggling young singers and musicians whom he thought promising. Joan Sutherland was an early beneficiary as was the conductor Colin Davis.
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Fort Worth Symphony musicians stage sit-in at orchestra offices
Fort Worth Symphony musicians staged a sit-in at symphony offices near Bass Hall on Thursday after management canceled upcoming contract negotiation meetings, they said.
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So Is Mozart In The Jungle Anything Like The Real Symphony? We Asked The NSO
The outlandish happenings on the show left us wondering: is this really what goes on behind the scenes of the venerated National Symphony Orchestra, a D.C. fixture since 1931?
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Music for Easter – 10 of the best
Graham Ross, director of music at Clare College, Cambridge, picks 10 of his favourite works for the paschal period.
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Thursday 24 March 2016
ENO: The situation looks bleak, but it need not be terminal
The shock resignation of music director Mark Wigglesworth – who opposed cost-cutting – sees English National Opera facing yet another crisis.
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Wednesday 23 March 2016
ENO music director Mark Wigglesworth quits
Conductor says he will step down at end of current season as troubled company is ‘evolving into something I do not recognise’
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Monday 21 March 2016
Jozef De Witte na amper tien maanden weg bij Nationaal Orkest
Het Nationaal Orkest van België maakt een einde aan de samenwerking met Jozef De Witte, die slechts tien maanden geleden aan het hoofd kwam van het orkest. De raad van bestuur had problemen met de aanpak van De Witte.
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Trumpet 3D Printed While Being Shipped
This fun commercial for Dutch parcel company PostNL took advantage of 3D printing to deliver a trumpet that did not exist until after the box that it came in was shipped.
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Saturday 19 March 2016
Miami should have own orchestra
Miami HeraldI am saddened that Miami doesn't have a symphonic orchestra of its own. Most major cities in this country have their own symphony orchestras and do not have to import one. Wouldn't it make sense to invest in and build up our own orchestra?
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Violinist from China wins annual young artist competition
A violinist from China took home the top spot this year at the 45th Annual William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition at the Flint Institute of Music.
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Friday 18 March 2016
Natalia Strelchenko murder: Husband John Martin found guilty
A classical musician has been found guilty of murdering his Russian wife, the renowned concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko.
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English National Opera strike threat withdrawn after pay deal agreed
Equity union negotiates guaranteed £35,000 pay deal for chorus after ENO’s Arts Council grant cut
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New York Today: Bach in the Subways - New York Times
New York TimesNew York Today: Bach in the SubwaysNew York TimesIn honor of the 331st birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. Six years ago on the N, Q, R platform at 42nd Street in Manhattan, a musician named Dale Henderson took out his cello and began playing hours of Bach suites as the trains rumbled by. Now he'll do ...
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Thursday 17 March 2016
London's Royal College of Music receives rare Gagliano violin in its original Baroque set-up
The Royal College of Music in London has been gifted a 1758 Nicolò Gagliano violin on permanent loan from an anonymous charitable benefactor.
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Wednesday 16 March 2016
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Opera's gender imbalance - The Economist (blog)
When the new students arrive at Sweden's two opera conservatories this autumn, they'll share one thing in common: they'll all be women. In the most recent round of auditions, only women won a place. There just weren't any qualified male candidates.
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Monday 14 March 2016
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies dies aged 81
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died, aged 81. The Salford-born composer, universally known as Max, had been suffering from leukaemia for several years and died at his home in Orkney on 14 March.
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Tributes pour in for deceased musician Conor Walsh
His experimental music style has been compared to the likes of Philip Glass, Aphex Twin and Nils Frahm.
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Sunday 13 March 2016
Saturday 12 March 2016
Friday 11 March 2016
Defizit von 100 Millionen Euro in den Jahren 2010 bis 2014
Rechnungshof rügt Bayerischen Rundfunk
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Thursday 10 March 2016
Can you believe that this incredible soprano is 90 years old?
We’re not ones to stereotype and this is by no means gospel but, generally speaking, by the time singers get to 90 years old, they tend to wind down because, simply, their voice isn’t what it once was.
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Wednesday 9 March 2016
Obituary: Sir George Martin
His passion for music really began when The London Symphony Orchestra, under Sir Adrian Boult, arrived to play a concert in the school hall. "It was absolutely magical. Hearing such glorious sounds, I found it difficult to connect them with 90 men and women blowing into brass and wooden instruments or scraping away at strings with horsehair bows. I could not believe my ears."
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Tuesday 8 March 2016
London’s South Bank can’t pay/won’t pay women performers
Southbank Centre is pleased to announce that we are once again recruiting female musicians to join the Women of the World Orchestra. We reported that event in January 2015, only to learn that the SBC had no intention of paying the women it was purporting to celebrate.
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The Piano's piano sells for just NZ$1,000 at auction
Non-playable prop from Jane Campion’s multiple Oscar-winning 1993 film was used in the movie’s famous beach scene
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Monday 7 March 2016
Are women being excluded from orchestras?
Ahead of International Women's Day, BBC Radio 3 asked 40 of the UK's biggest orchestras to reveal the percentages of men and women in their ranks.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt obituary
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who has died aged 86, was one of the most innovative and influential conductors of the second half of the 20th century, bringing the scholarship and sensibility of historical performance to the mainstream repertoire with sometimes controversial, but always illuminating results.
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Sunday 6 March 2016
Saturday 5 March 2016
'Every day involves thinking, dreaming, playing and singing'
Being a professional composer requires real mental and physical stamina, says British composer and musician Errollyn Wallen There still persists the stereotype of the languid (always male) composer in an ivory tower..... There were times when I despaired of being able to break into the world of being a professional musician — it seemed impenetrable. I held my nerve and wouldn’t give up.
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Friday 4 March 2016
Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)
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Philadelphia Orchestra to visit Mongolia, first step to a residency
The Philadelphia Orchestra has seen many firsts, but few could have imagined this one. In June 2017, the well-traveled ensemble will touch down at Genghis Khan International Airport in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar
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Give me a break: classical musicians who step away.
Stepping off the treadmill. All of these major pianists have taken or are taking a sabbatical from performing. [Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about taking time off for Bach.] Hitting the big time as a soloist is supposed to be the pinnacle of a musician ...
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Thursday 3 March 2016
How women made the violin their own
When it comes to playing the violin, women are everywhere. It’s a change symbolised by a surprising announcement from the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, which takes place next month in London. In its senior division, there will be only one man out of 22 finalists.
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Three Berlin orchestras welcome refugees -
The Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin seldom team up. But on Tuesday evening, the three orchestras and their principal conductors made music in affirmation of what Fischer described as "the new Europe.
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Wednesday 2 March 2016
Antonio Pappano and English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra nominated for Olivier Awards
Just days after deciding to strike over pay and job cuts, ENO’s Chorus has been nominated for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Opera’, along with the ENO Orchestra
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„Ein sichtbares Zeichen der Solidarität setzen“
Philharmoniker-Intendant Martin Hoffmann über das Konzert für Flüchtlinge, die Zukunft des Kulturforums – und seinen Abschied vom Orchester.
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Flute Like You've Never Heard Before
That is a hyperbass flute whose range goes down to negative E-1 on the musical scale, an octave below low C on a concert piano. There's only two of them in the world and some of its tones can't even be heard by humans.
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Tuesday 1 March 2016
LaSalle Quartet violist Peter Kamnitzer has died aged 93
Kamnitzer joined the ensemble in 1949, alongside founder violinist Walter Levin and second violinist Henry Meyer – fellow German Jewish refugees from the Second World War – and cellist Jackson Wiley ...
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Grammy Winner Kim Kashkashian: I Get Confused with Kim Kardashian ‘All The Time’
Kashkashian is so dedicated to her job that she even skipped the Grammy Awards Sunday to attend one of her student’s graduations. “One of my students had her graduation recital, so I definitely had to be here,” she says. “I had to do that. It was her big night, so I felt like I had to be here for her.”
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Mehr Frauen in Orchestern: „Frage der Zeit“
Auch ohne Quote nehmen die Wiener Spitzenorchester immer mehr Frauen in ihren Reihen auf. Verantwortlich dafür ist weniger gesellschaftlicher Druck, sondern die Zahl der hochqualifizierten Studentinnen an den Universitäten.
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