Thursday, 30 June 2016

Guildhall School of Music and Drama pictures what its orchestra would look like minus EU students

Before the vote, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama released striking photographs of its young symphony orchestra with and without EU students. In total, 49 of its 109 orchestra members come from other European Union countries.

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Cleveland Orchestra appoints Wesley Collins, former student of Robert Vernon, principal violist - (blog)



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Kentucky Opera names new general director

Kentucky Opera named current Dallas Opera artistic administrator Ian Derrer as the company’s next general director on Monday, nearly a year after the sudden death of its previous leader David Roth.

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Can classical music reach a new audience through unlikely venues?

Where can we expect to hear performances of classical music these days? In a concert hall, most likely – a gleaming culture palace with cushy seats and finely calibrated acoustics.

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'Classical musicians must be innovative and personal, without violating tradition,' says Tim Frederiksen

The difficult thing about being a classical musician is that you must show you can master, at a very high level, what great personalities have mastered before, but at the same time you have to be innovative and find a new angle

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Musicians protest Brexit tensions with Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' in London

On Friday evening, after the referendum's result was announced, musicians assembled outside St-Martin-in-the-Fields in central London for a spontaneous performance of the Ode to Joy from the finale Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

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