"The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you miss your moment in an orchestra, there is no forgiving."
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Tuesday 31 May 2016
We can't stop watching the expression on this viola player's face
Ever had one of those moments of realisation, when you work out that you've been pulling a strange face for many, many seconds?
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Monday 30 May 2016
How to Design Your Home Music Room
Including expert tips from top musicians and sound technicians on how to create your home music room...
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Violinist bows out after 61 years
Pat Francis, 77, is San Diego Symphony’s longest-serving player
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Opera North mourns principal bassoon
This week’s Ring cycle in Leeds this week will be dedicated to the memory of Sebastian New, who died in the past few days, aged 57.
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Sunday 29 May 2016
'Classical' music is dying...and that's the best thing for classical music
Charlie Albright says new approaches to classical music are the route to its revival.
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Do we still need classically trained musicians?
You might be asking that if orchestras and opera companies are in distress, why in the world do we need more classically trained musicians?
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Do you Make More Money than Mozart?
Last month we explored what the annual salary of some of history’s most famous scientists would be if they were being paid today. As it was so much fun we decided to revisit the topic, but instead took a look at some of the most iconic composers from Europe (and one from America).
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We still need positive action in classical music, says LA Phil boss
President and Chief Executive Officer (David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair) of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Deborah Borda, reveals the need for conscious effort and action around diversity at the top of orchestral music.
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Saturday 28 May 2016
Detroit Symphony Orchestra gets $2.9M for music education
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra says it has received a roughly $3 million donation for its music education programs.
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Shari Ulrich's violins and mandolin stolen
Straight.comShari Ulrich's violins and mandolin stolenStraight.comIn a Facebook post, Shari Ulrich revealed that two violins, a mandolin, and a Blue DaVinci Oslo bike were stolen.
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Friday 27 May 2016
Leaving the NSO, a veteran clarinetist reflects on the orchestra's ups and downs
Loren Kitt, 74, has been the principal clarinet of the National Symphony Orchestra since 1970. In the middle of this season, he quietly left the orchestra and retired to his home in Maine. He will be honored at the NSO performance on June 9. Earlier this year, he talked about his 45 years of service.
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Tehran Symphony Orchestra gives first performance with new conductor
The Tehran Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert with new conductor Shahrdad Rohani at Vahdat Hall on Wednesday night after the Vienna-based Iranian maestro Ali Rahbari resigned from the orchestra earlier in April.
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Thursday 26 May 2016
Un compositeur attaque l'Orchestre de la Suisse romande en justice
Plusieurs projets de résidence et de commandes n’ayant pas abouti, le compositeur Richard Dubugnon se tourne vers la justice contre la direction de l'OSR. La présidente de la fondation se défend
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Wednesday 25 May 2016
What Apple Music Pays Artists In 42 Different Countries…
What is Apple Music paying artists? We asked an artist with more than 32,000 streams across 42 countries for the answer.
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Choirs and boy bands. From trebles to Take That
REALITY television shows such as The X Factor may have forged the likes of One Direction and JLS, but it is from choirs that the next generation of male heartthrobs will emerge. Die Prinzen, one of Germany’s most popular pop bands, consists of former pupils in the St Thomas Choir of Leipzig.
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Classical music: Printed programmes are a convention worth keeping
A high proportion of composers do not like writing about their work but listeners find such context invaluable
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Pawn shop employees instrumental in returning stolen violin
A professional-quality handmade violin stolen from a musician with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra during the weekend is back in the hands of its owner after it was sold to a pawn shop, which recognized the item as having been stolen.
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BBC Music launches virtual orchestra
Amateur musicians to play Last Night of the Proms
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Beethoven: 'Even among his oldest friends, he must be humoured like a wayward child'
From the archive, 23 April 1827: Following the death of Beethoven, the Observer publishes a personal account of the eccentric and prodigiously talented composer
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Tuesday 24 May 2016
Middletown Symphony to end musical programs
Middletown Symphony Orchestra’s 75th anniversary next year will also mark its grand finale.
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Opera North's Richard Farnes departs with The Ring
After 12 years at the musical helm of the company, he is moving on, but not before he leads the orchestra through four operas and 15 hours of some of what he calls the most "physical" music on offer.
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Contract that helped bring Bach's St Matthew Passion to the world to be auctioned
When JS Bach died in 1750, his music was virtually forgotten. Only a few of his compositions were published in his lifetime. His music survived in handwritten copies prepared by himself and his pupils, and as a result many works were lost,
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Cellist Daniel Hass wins Stulberg International String Competition
Israeli cellist Daniel Hass has won the 2016 Stulberg International String Competition in Kalamazoo, MI, US. The 18-year-old (pictured), who currently studies with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School, received the gold medal, $6,000 and engagements ...
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Monday 23 May 2016
Why everyone laughing at the FA Cup National Anthem singer is wrong
It’s every singer’s worst nightmare: a huge stage, a television audience and a simple song to sing, but it all goes terribly wrong.
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Review: ASO’s Christopher Rex is focus of “Concerto” film on family dysfunction
Concerto, a feature-length documentary about the lives of two brothers, Charles and Christopher Rex, who overcame a traumatic childhood at the hands of their brilliant but disturbed and abusively controlling father, yet grew up to become highly respected classical musicians.
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£21000 to £2m: Handel, the investing maestro
We know a great deal about Handel’s approach because detailed records survive of his dealings with his bank and the custodian of his financial assets – which in both cases was, surprisingly from a modern standpoint, the Bank of England.
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Friday 20 May 2016
BBC Radio 3 has three-year high for listeners
Its audience is now 2.12 million listeners, up from 2.05 million for its last quarter, marking the first full year for new controller Alan Davey.
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Thursday 19 May 2016
Bagshot musician 'devastated' after thieves stole sentimental 19th century violin from a car in Bath on May 13
Mr Young was unexpectedly evacuated from his flat on Friday following the discovery of a Second World War bomb nearby. He left items he would need for the weekend, including the violin, in the boot of his girlfriend’s car parked in a street.
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman Cancels Performance Over LGBT Law
Itzhak Perlman said he canceled his Wednesday performance with the North Carolina Symphony after he was told he would not be able to include a personal statement opposing the state's new law limiting antidiscrimination policies
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BBC Young Musician is worthy of attention in the Guardian’s print edition | Letters
Prince’s death merited an eight-page tribute supplement plus days of analysis. The Eurovision song contest merited three-quarters of a page and a host of other articles.
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Wednesday 18 May 2016
South Korean luthier wins Wieniawski International Violin Making Competition - The Strad
South Korean luthier wins Wieniawski International Violin Making CompetitionThe StradJi Hwan Park, a luthier from South Korea, won the Grand Prix and €20,000 at this year's International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Making Competition.
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Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason is just what classical music needs
Kanneh-Mason, who attends a comprehensive school in Nottingham, is obviously an unusually gifted individual and a fantastically communicative player, but the roots of his success are neither unusual nor fantastic:
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Tuesday 17 May 2016
Famous Cellphone Ringtones Played On The Piano (Tony Ann Arrangement)
Tony Ann is a pianist, composer, and songwriter from Toronto, Canada.
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The South West Open Youth Orchestra is looking for young people with disabilities who play a range of musical instruments.
Open Up Music, the Bristol-based charity that created the orchestra has now teamed up with Bovington-based Dorset Music Education Hub to encourage the hundreds of disabled students in secondary or special schools in Dorset to join up.
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Paata Burchuladze leaves opera to pursue a career in politics
"I am forced to leave the sweet and good life of an opera career and go into politics. This is not because I’m a good person or politician, but because the country is in a very bad condition."
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Chineke! Foundation - Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music
The Chineke! Foundation congratulates Sheku Kanneh-Mason, BBC Young Musician 2016! Of winning the competition, Sheku said: ‘It’s a wonderful feeling. I’m so grateful for all the support from my family, the Junior Royal Academy of Music, my teacher Ben Davies and Chineke! who have helped me on this extraordinary journey.’
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Monday 16 May 2016
Julian Lloyd Webber slams the BBC's classical music coverage
Radio TimesJulian Lloyd Webber slams the BBC's classical music coverageRadio TimesCellist Julian Lloyd Webber has accused the BBC of relegating classic music to a ghetto on BBC4.
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Are orchestras too stuffy?
But this is a difficult period for orchestras which need to innovate at time when their budgets are falling. A survey by the Association of British Orchestras found that in 2012-13, orchestras’ finances were down by 14% in real terms due to cuts in public funding. They also have an image problem and are often seen as highbrow and elitist. Even the venues they play in can be viewed as stuffy and intimidating.
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The BBC is killing its classical creation - The Times (subscription)
Tomorrow night the BBC will screen the final of its Young Musician 2016 competition. This will probably come as news to you as the BBC has been systematically downgrading its invaluable showcase for young classical musicians to the point where it now
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Sunday 15 May 2016
Watch: A trombone that shoots flames 26 feet into the air
The whole crazy thing is the invention of a UT student named Valentin Guerin, a trombonist who came up with the idea in an effort to give the brass instrument a bit more of a rock 'n' roll vibe.
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$7152 Clarinet Stolen from a Murfreesboro Music Store - Wgnsradio
$7152 Clarinet Stolen from a Murfreesboro Music StoreWgnsradioA $7,000 clarinet was stolen from the Music and Arts store in the Oaks Shopping plaza on Thompson Lane in Murfreesboro. The store manager told police the Buffet Tosca Wood Clarinet was on a back wall in the store prior to it being taken. The employee ...
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World’s first underwater band performs in giant aquariums
New Scientist.
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Mahler prize goes to a Masur protege
he Mahler Competition of the Bamberg Symphony, which ended last night, has yielded some outstanding talents in the past decade, and some outstandingly young. This year's winners are all around 30 and the talent was too sparse to award a fourth prize.
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Saturday 14 May 2016
Opera legend Lesley Garrett reveals how cancer heartbreak changed her life
“So I went to Opera North and made my comeback with La Voix Humaine three years ago. Then with Pleasure I said to them, ‘Write me something for a powerful older woman, like Hillary Clinton’.
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The Nutcracker performed by body poppers is an absolute revelation
Dancers Glitch, Bdash and Konkrete provided a refreshing take on The Nutcracker at a California Philharmonic concert.
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Friday 13 May 2016
Help needed to solve Second World War mystery of hidden trombone
The Bucks Military Museum Trust are still looking for information about a 1924 Boosey brass trombone hidden in a cellar in France by the Buckinghamshire Battalion from the advancing German Army in May 1940 in the Dunkirk Rearguard.
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Our neglect of this great working-class British composer is a disgrace
If Havergal Brian’s Symphony No 30 were premiered today as the work of a photogenic 25-year-old, preferably female or gay, it would cause a sensation
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How Yo-Yo Ma gets a Galician bagpipe and a violin to make beautiful music together
The Silk Road Ensemble, Ma's collective that promotes collaboration between artists from across cultures, disciplines and generations.
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Thursday 12 May 2016
Pollini-Konzertbesucher buhen Flüchtling aus
Beim Konzert der Klavierlegende Mauricio Pollini in der Hamburger Laeiszhalle kam es zum Eklat: Der Darbietung eines 18-jährigen Flüchtlings aus Afghanistan über religiöse Unfreiheit folgten Buh-Rufe.
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Rebels With Bows
While the cello may sound stately and dignified, cellists are often anything but.
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Riccardo Muti to return to La Scala for first time since 2005
Maestro who quit as Milan opera house’s musical director amid acrimony will conduct two concerts in January
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Brown County Violinist Wins National Award
16-year-old violinist Maria Sanderson of Brown County recently won first place and $10,000 in the national Sphinx Competition, a nationwide contest for black and Latino young adult classical musicians.
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A sad day for the EU as Abbado's orchestra is abolished
The European Union Youth Orchestra was the brainchild of Claudio Abbado, a means of bonding young musicians from different countries. In almost 40 years it has helped 3,000 musicians to find their voice.
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Wednesday 11 May 2016
Opera companies urged to break out of 'ghetto' to find new audiences
Graham Vick, maverick founder of Birmingham Opera Company, lambasts increasingly privatised art funding at classical music world’s Oscars Opera companies need to get out of their “ghetto” where they are protected by concepts of excellence and artistic integrity and find new audiences on their own ground
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Tuesday 10 May 2016
Casting for Arabs Got Talent Season 5 is on!
If you have a special talent or know a friend who does, please contact us with your talent description and contact details. (Magicians, unique choirs, comedians, outstanding dancers, gymnastics etc..)For those who are interested, they are required to send a short video to Gottalent4@imagic.tv presenting their submission video Or to contact us on 009613003228 OR 0096171139234 (corine chalfoun).
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Monday 9 May 2016
Penguins show an opera singer what they really think of his performance
Here's an idea – if you're going to belt out an impromptu opera performance, check to see if your audience a) wants to actually hear you sing and b) isn't in the middle of a nap.
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Sunday 8 May 2016
Think you're busy? Try juggling 2 orchestras, 3 cities, 3 kids
A day in the over-booked life of Sarah Ioannides, music director and conductor with the Tacoma Symphony
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Friday 6 May 2016
Show me the honey: Glyndebourne director requests beehive on his rider
My eye is drawn to an article concerning the new general director of Glyndebourne, Sebastian Schwarz, whose rider conditions should pass immediately into music legend. To wit: he demands an apiary.
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New York Philharmonic Names New Principal Trumpet
The New York Philharmonic announced on Thursday that its next principal trumpet player would be Christopher Martin, who currently holds the position at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and who will begin in New York in September...
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Thursday 5 May 2016
Wednesday 4 May 2016
Boris Johnson: 'I was very lucky, as a kid I had everything thrown at me'
Emmanuel Odujebe, now 13, became one of the first children to be sponsored by the Mayor’s Music Fund (MMF), launched in 2011 to support some of the most musically talented children from the least privileged backgrounds in the capital.
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Tuesday 3 May 2016
'Opera must never offend just for effect,' says Glyndebourne's new general director
Rumour in the opera world whispers that Glyndebourne bagged a tremendous catch when it signed Sebastian Schwarz as its new general director. “I think Covent Garden is kicking itself that it didn't get to him first,” an insider friend of mine comments ...
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Copyright expires on Bolero, French classical favourite
Almost 90 years after it was first performed in Paris, the copyright runs out on Sunday on one of the most popular and unique pieces of classical music, Ravel's "Bolero".
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Winners Announced at the 28th Annual Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition
Mezzo-Soprano Virginie Verrez Takes Top Prize and $10,000 Cash!
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The ballet dance troupe started in a Nigerian garage
Lebanese-Nigerian Mrs Boulos was born in Burkina Faso but moved to Nigeria when her family relocated to expand their business.
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Monday 2 May 2016
American Airlines apologizes to musician for barring violin
She said the fact that her violin, a 1742 Guarneri, is a rare and valuable instrument, is irrelevant: “It could be a $50 student violin and the same problem exists.”
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Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché
In the more than 30 years that I have been going to the opera, in no opera house, on any continent, have I seen a production that used the quintessential Wagnerian stereotype: The pseudo-Viking horned helmet.
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Arizona Opera's New Director is Really Excited About the New Job. Like, Really, Really Excited
The recent hiring of Joseph Specter as Arizona Opera's new general director isn't the first time in this last year that Phoenix and Austin have shared organizational arts leaders.
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Opera singer Isabel Leonard has an unconventional approach to wellness
How an opera singer's exercise routine could teach you more than you think
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Sunday 1 May 2016
English National Opera appoints Daniel Kramer as artistic director
ENO hoping American-born director will bring stability to company that has lurched from crisis to crisis over past two years
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My toes were curled in a rictus of embarrassment at this new opera
The target public – that youthful constituency so reluctant to sample opera – was nowhere in evidence.
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Stuck on repeat: why we love repetition in music
Music of every genre, every culture and every period employs repeated phrases for effect. Why do we love to listen to the same things again and again?
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