CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA/BALLET TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 100 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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For months prior to the beginning of Carmel Bach Festival 2014, we heard the mantra, “The Italians are Coming, The Italians are Coming.” Well, last night they truly arrived as concertmaster Peter Hanson and an ensemble of players from th...
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Wigmore Hall, London Donohoe played a fascinating selection of rarely heard Opus 1s Designating a work as "Opus 1" meant something special to many 19th- and early 20th-century composers; it was a public statement, a manifesto s...
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It's in short supply out there in the wider world, but in the UK's musical sphere, hot on the heels of Judith Weir's official appointment up top comes more good news. Protect Music Education says that their efforts have secured a £18m in...
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The Prototype festival, celebrating experimental opera and theater, will bring experimental works to New York City.
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David Zinman shines in his role as Chief Conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra and there is some flawless technique from violinist Julia Fischer in BBC Proms 5
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Royal Albert Hall, London David Zinman's final concert as chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle was a superb example of his intelligent musicianship This beautiful Prom marked the end of an era. David Zinman 's last concert as chief con...
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Ms Fleming is attempting straight theatre, as an opera star who is coming to terms with advancing age. In Williamstown, Massachusetts. At the aptly named WTF.
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On July 20, 2014, the Glimmerglass Festival presented the premiere of a new version of composer Tobias Picker and librettist Gene Scheer’s An American Tragedy, originally commissioned by and premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 2...
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The death of Lorin Maazel deprives us of a maestro who held the podium for more than 70 years. Earlier this year, we lost Claudio Abbado and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. The conductor Paul Mauffray wondered quite naturally whether this lef...
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Daniil Trifonov is champion of the new generation, Evgeny Kissin of the middle generation. The photo, last night at Verbier with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, feels like a transitional moment.
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Judith Weir is Master of the Queen's Music: more women must follow
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Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
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Press release, just landed: The BBC Singers today announced the appointment of Judith Weir CBE as their new Associate Composer from January 2015, in a tenure running until 2018. It follows the announcem...
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Etienne Abelin, a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, has sent us this moving reminiscence: Half a year ago, Claudio Abbado passed away. He was a mentor for me and countless others. There’s not a d...
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We have been alerted belatedly to the statement below, dated July 16. Joint Statement on Current Events in Israel/Palestine: We are deeply saddened and concerned by the news reaching us from Israel/Palestine and share the w...
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At midnight, Buckingham Palace did as expected. It announced Judith Weir as Master of the Queen’s Musick, the first woman to hold a largely honorific role. Her name had been linked to the post a month ago and we heard rumours in re...
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Today’s post highlights an important yet often forgotten element in music education. Most pupils take instrumental exams at some point in their musical training and are therefore familiar with aural and sight-reading tests (nearly ...
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As of this morning, Judith Weir is officially Master of the Queen's Music. She is off to Buckingham Palace today for an audience with HM. She is also launching a blog, which you can follow from her website . Here's Tom Service's intervie...
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Weber's Euryanthe is receiving its first American production in 100 years when it is staged by Bard SummerScape festival in New York's Annandale-on Hudson. Leon Botstein conducts, with a cast which includes Ellie Dehn, William Burden, We...
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Gavin Bryars: Music from the Faroe Islands - Hövdingar hittast ("Heroes Meet") Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Jul9 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Gavin Bryars inspired by the legends of the Faroe Islands Three works by Gavin Bryars inspired by the ...
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Beethoven's Pastoral is no musical cul-de-sac, writes Tom Service. It's a radical work, and in its final movement is music more purely spine-tingling and life-enhancingly joyful than almost anywhere else in his output This week, Beethove...
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Aspen Music Festival (6): Emerson String Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Nicholas McGegan (conductor and harpsichord), Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO. 15-17.7.2014 (HS) Emerson String Quartet, July 15 Harris Concert Hall Eugene Dru...
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Unander-Scharin, Tokfursten (The Mad Prince) Soloists, Vattnäs Operakapell. Mattias Böhm (conductor). The Concert Barn, Vattnäs, Dalecarlia, Sweden. 10.7.2014 (premiere) (GF) Cast: Tokfursten (The Mad Prince) Fredrik Zetterström God Mot...
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Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Harry Bicket (conductor), Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 12.7.2014 (RDA) Cast: Alex Penda (Leonore) Paul Groves (Florestan) Manfred Hemm (Rocco) Greer Grimsley (Don Pizarro) Devon Guthrie (Marzellin...
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Silent Night Gleams Darkly At Cincinnati Opera"> By Janelle Gelfand CINCINNATI – Within days of the centennial of the Sarajevo assassination that triggered World War I, Kevin Puts' Silent Night, about the Christmas Eve truce of 1914, too...
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Rossini's 'Otello', reviewed by Mike Wheeler
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Schubert Winterreise with a difference! Matthias Goerne sang Schubert Winterreise with pianist Markus Hinterhauser, at the Aix en Provence Festival with a background of projected images designed by Sabine Theunissen, directed by William ...
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For Weir, the first woman in the position, it means supporting composers and exploring the state of music education Judith Weir must be the most modest master of the Queen's music in the job's 388-year history. "The palace asked a l...
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Nicola Benedetti, the violinist, reveals she gets trolled on Twitter on the issue of Scottish independence even though she has never publicly expressed a view on it
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On 7/22 I'll be on the Diane Rehm show, talking about the future of classical music with some distinguished colleagues.
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"The Mozart Project" offers an interactive overview of the composer's life and work, with scholarly expertise, music and video.
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Stunned by his death in a road accident, colleagues and friends of the LSO’s former principal trumpet, Rod Franks, have been sharing their sorrows and memories. Clive Gillinson, the orchestra’s former cellist and managing dir...
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The conductor Ilan Volkov, music director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, will lead an ad hoc ensemble of classical musicians at an anti-war protest tomorrow in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. The protest, organised by the artist Omer ...
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Over the past two decades, Vijay Iyer has recorded some 18 albums of bold, genre-defying and original music that navigates the fine line between composition and improvisation, between jazz and New Music. Although his restless musical im...
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In 2005 I had the privilege to share a recital program with Jerome Lowenthal and Frederic Rzewski that focused on Beethoven. I played the 32 C minor Variations with an improvised cadenza before the coda; Rzewski played his own Andante Co...
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PROM 2: Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Qigang Chen, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Haochen Zhang (piano); Alison Balsom (trumpet); China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long Yu (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 19.7.2014 (CC) E...
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By Jacqueline Vanasse: I heard the Ukrainian violinist Valery Solokov in concert only once. It was very long ago, but I remember everything about it. Most of all, I remember his magnificent sound – one of the most beautiful violin sounds...
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Just in: Prom 6 (Tuesday 22 July) We are sorry to announce that Lars Woldt and Teodora Gheorghiu have had to withdraw from the Proms performance of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, owing to illness. We are very grateful to Franz Hawl...
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By Gerald Klickstein: “The details are not the details. They make the design.” –Charles Eames, designer For musicians and designers alike, our approach to detail largely determines whether our work soars or flops. Simply put, meticulous ...
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In the aftermath of MH 17, its hard to think of any ally of Vladimir Putin as an ambassador for world peace. On the other hand, because I genuinely believe in freedom of speech, I can't condemn him for having opinions on subj...
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The World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Vladimir Putin's friend Valerie Gergiev, offer up a vague and incomprehensible concert at the 2014 Proms
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Every Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge on Classical MPR to talk about a few of the stories we've been featuring on our website. Here's what we'll be discussing today.
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Isle of Eigg, Hebrides This inaugural event showcased a wide range of music from Jens Lakeman to cellist Olly Coates' Messiaen but the island was the real star Could there be a more magical setting for a music festival? The little Hebrid...
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Royal Albert Hall, London The orchestra and increasingly controversial conductor's Mahler lost sight of structural tautness in a quest for emotional vividness Drawing its players from ensembles worldwide, the World Orchestra for Peace wa...
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The Knights The Knights perform music by Gyorgy Ligeti, Bela Bartok, Sufjan Stevens, Ljova, and Igor Stravinsky. Tuesday, July 22 at 7:30 PM Free Historic Naumburg Bandshell, Concert Ground, Central Park, New York, NY ..:: Website SoSI i...
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt reveals Mozart's Symphonies 39,40 & 41
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Dress rehearsal for Rossini's Otello at Buxton Festival photo Robert Workman Rossini Otello ; Stephen Barlow conducts Northern Chamber Orchestra; Buxton Festival at Buxton Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 20 2014 Star rating:...
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Nicholas Lester & Anne Sophie Duprels Dvorak The Jacobin ; Northern Chamber Orchestra, Conductor Stephen Barlow, Director Stephen Unwin; Buxton Festival at Buxton Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 18 2014 Star rating: 4.5 ...
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Michael Chance as Orfeo, in the Elysian Fields photo Robert Workman Gluck Orfeo ; Michael Chance, Northern Chamber Orchestra, conductor Stuart Stratford, director Stephen Medcalf; Buxton Festival at Buxton Opera House Reviewed by Robert ...
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Ran across this the other day and just wanted to share. This is Giulini through and through.
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You like @Kristjanjarvi's enthusiasm? #live in 1 HOUR at the @VerbierFestival for a Milhaud Mahler Strauss concert http://ow.ly/zrb7X
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Familienkonzert: Die @BerlinPhil präsentieren den Grüffelo als Puppentheater mit Live-Musik. Kostenlos ansehen unter http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/de/konzert/1734/?a=twitter&c=true …
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Got tickets for the #PSBprom Weds 22.15? If not, up to 1400 standing tickets are available on the day - £5. @petshopboys #PromsPitNotMoshPit
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The Salzburg Festival presents all the symphonies by Anton Bruckner which the composer himself endorsed! Take a look! http://goo.gl/MPuzG6
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In the August issue: @DavidZinman analyses Beethoven 2 http://www.gramophone.co.uk/latest-issue/august-2014 …
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Lookin' to beat the heat? It's going to be soooo cool in Heinz Hall when Boyz II Men perform w/the PSO tomorrow. http://ow.ly/zs0xO
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.@soundandmusic writing parts for @londonsymphony to play my piece with @crewdson this Sunday https://m.soundcloud.com/crewdson-cevanne/sisas-well … pic.twitter.com/igtZd0CqWs
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Thrilled to announce I'm recording #Tchaikovsky #piano concerto no 1 with @rpoonline on @SignumRecords. Excited beyond words! #lifeisgood
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It's our first BBC #Prom of the season today! We're performing Der Rosenkavalier with @glyndebourne. Who's coming? http://bbc.in/1qxuLLQ
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'Performances of substance from a young Chinese #violinist' ― Tianwa Yang in Eugène Ysaÿe, @TheStradMag Reviews: http://bit.ly/WAmNFy
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Here's the RCM's Laefer Quartet at the beautiful @BoconnocEstate in Cornwall ahead of their concerts there this week pic.twitter.com/FC9FRzftHV
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We're honoured to be joining the Berlin Philharmonic for a unique WW1 commemoration on 4 Aug: http://bit.ly/1nNONur pic.twitter.com/ves1r8doce
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Listen to the @bbcproms in surround sound this summer... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/posts/BBC-Proms-in-Surround-Sound …
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In the August issue: Sir Roger Norrington champions Beethoven 1 http://www.gramophone.co.uk/latest-issue/august-2014 …
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http://www.theviolinchannel.com/vc-giveaway-100-daddario-kaplan-violin-strings-sets/ … Win 1 of 100 Pre-Release @DAddarioBowed Kalpan #Violin String Sets! 100 Chances to Win!
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As it's 3.29 on a Tuesday, let's have an easy classical music crossword clue: Composer's good fortune (5)
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RT @SharonVioliNYP: Violists Becky Young & Rémi Pelletier, w/Sarah Pratt vln: "We love NY Fillyharmonic!" @BravoVail pic.twitter.com/Pg4TFkJemz
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This autumn our Tour stops at Woking, Canterbury, Norwich, Milton Keynes, Plymouth, Dublin & Stoke-on-Trent http://ow.ly/zrAU4
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#FREE! Hear CSO cello Brant Taylor in tonight’s @RushHour concert at Saint James Cathedral http://bit.ly/1l8SMSj
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A movement-by-movement exploration of #Beethoven 7 in @GramophoneMag’s August issue. Take a look http://bit.ly/1r205PE
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What the pros wish they had known before entering a company: http://bit.ly/14IOFcj (PC Katherine Frey) pic.twitter.com/vJFsZlhDz5
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A little break and downtime is good for all concerned, thanks for all your support and laughs on twitter during the season and see soon!
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Dear Tweeps,we are taking a bit of a summer break from twitter, so will only be tweeting a handful of messages every week... 1/2
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Video: #violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen .@TamsinWaleyCohe performs Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending http://bit.ly/1zXObfH
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#TuesdayTrivia time! Ahead of Shostakovich's Symphony 10 at tomorrow's Prom, what was the composer's musical after-school job as a youth?
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Listen to highlights of the #bbcproms here, including Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Mahler & Liszt: http://bbc.in/1tuUhj9 pic.twitter.com/SmxpKeg4WL
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Watch an excerpt from Elgar's The Kingdom on the @BBCRadio3 YouTube channel: http://bbc.in/1lptnEa #bbcproms pic.twitter.com/bU3duEL3HG
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See Der Rosenkavalier @bbcproms this evening, or listen live on @BBCRadio3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2014/july-22/14932 …
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From the Archive: at the outset of war, @TheStradMag's September 1914 issue reflected on tough times ahead http://bit.ly/1rjL8dE
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We need your help: please fill in our online survey to help us improve our website! http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=k9qjljx142hdeq4392880 …
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Well done @ISM_music and #ProtectMusic! Campaign success! #musiced
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Music education in England gets 30% funding boost, back up to £75m for 2015/16: http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2014/07/music-education-in-england-gets-funding-boost-back-up-to-75m-for-201516/ … #musiced
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Thanks to all that signed up to #protectmusic education, responded to the consultation and spread the word. Result! http://ow.ly/zrwWk
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The @LPOrchestra launch Rachmaninoff: Inside Out - the most extensive celebration of the composer's music ever! http://bit.ly/1o4G2Bb
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The props have arrived, the stage is almost set. Just a few hours to go until Prom 6: Der Rosenkavalier: http://ow.ly/i/6j9bb
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You know that @Kristjanjarvi has a predilection for post-romantic, modern & contemporary music #live #tonight http://ow.ly/zrb5o
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We're offering a special introductory price on our new Automation summer course for industry professionals! http://bit.ly/1nPYV60
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My favourite bit of the summer. @LPOrchestra @glyndebourne @bbcproms combined for Der Rosenkavalier. Great to see (and hear) all the action.
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#Tonight @Kristjanjarvi #back #live on medicitv. Milhaud, Mahler & Strauss concert with Stephan Genz @VerbierFestival http://ow.ly/zraWc
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Shlomo Mintz .@ShlomoMintz1 is to join the Queensland Symphony .@QSOrchestra as its inaugural soloist-in residence http://bit.ly/1lmzY29
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In our latest blog, Leonard Elschenbroich gives his thoughts on joining BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme: http://www.classical-music.com/blog/joining-bbc-radio-3-new-generation-artists-scheme …
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Trucks, buses and opera singers: Sandra Willis talks to @774melbourne tonight 9.30pm about taking an opera on the road.
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We have some interesting data on the proportion of female composers at different stages #creativedata #wearenewmusic pic.twitter.com/2VKxPpI40V
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Watch Sir Andrew Davis and the @BBCSO perform Elgar's The Kingdom on the #iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04b3n4p/bbc-proms-2014-season-first-night-of-the-proms … #bbcproms http://twitter.com/bbcproms/stat...
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Opera student Lauren Fagan is interviewed about being accepted as a @RoyalOperaHouse Jette Parker Young Artist http://bit.ly/1p9CPPZ
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#musiced Worth noting that today's announcement only restores the 2012/13 levels (and that in cash terms only)
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£18m extra funding for music education in 2015-16 very welcome. Sector needs to unite to deliver high quality for all http://fb.me/3fznGrOph
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#ProtectMusic Education has been a united voice for music education, defending key funding ever since its ceasing was proposed in March 2014
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This is an increase of £17m from 2014/15 when #musiced received just £58m. This is a substantial victory for #ProtectMusic Education.
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Happy Birthday to Terence Stamp whose 1962 film debut (Billy Budd) feat. a PO recorded score http://bit.ly/1dzqoe1 pic.twitter.com/aphJinjQsX
