Tuesday's Top 50 Classical Music News & Stories
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Both of the annual open air concerts, yesterday and tonight, have now been called off. Plans to remember the late Lorin Maazel have shifted to next weekend’s residency at Vail, an unsatisfactory solution.
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Opening Gala Concert.: Susan Bullock (Soprano), Richard Berkeley-Steele (tenor), Kinder Children’s Choir of the High Peak (Choir mistress, Joyce Ellis MBE), Northern Chamber Orchestra / Stephen Barlow.(conductor), Opera House, Buxton, ...
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Fabio Luisi likely had good ideas for this 2011 live performance of Mahler’s Sixth symphony, but they largely fail to come through in this new CD from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s house label. Luisi chooses decent tempos–slightl...
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20th Century Boy – The Musical: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, Essex, 15.4.2014. (JPr) Cast: Marc: Warren Sollars June: Lucy Sinclair Gloria: Donna Hines Rolan: Luke Bailey Phyllis: Sue Jenkins Harry Feld/Jockey: Peter Manchester Tony...
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Highlights from July 15 to 22 Thursday, 3 pm hour: Regional Spotlight: Imogen Cooper plays Schubert, from a Chopin Society recital. Friday, 8 pm: Minnesota Orchestra: Mozart and Rachmaninoff. Sunday, 6 am: Pipedreams: From the Mailbag. S...
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The Henschel Quartet Celebrate 20th Year 1994 – 2014 20 years old this year and one of the hottest string ensembles around, the Henschel Quartet is currently celebrating its anniversary in style with a packed diary of exciting engagemen...
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Rain caused the New York Philharmonic to cancel a concert planned for Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
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After La Traviata at Glyndebourne, the ever-versatile director Tom Cairns is off to Edinburgh, he tells Rupert Christiansen
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By Richard S. Ginell: From Out of the West It has not been a good year for followers of major maestros. First to fall in ...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY ! Today is Sir Harrison Birtwistle's 80th birthday - many happy returns and many more good years ahead ! May he thrive like Elliott Carter, always finding new challenges. Birtwistle is Britain's greatest living compo...
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‘Even two or three cases in a country, those cases can blow up unless everyone is immunised,’ pleads the great violinist. Watch here.
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Sir Jack Lyons concert hall, York Jordi Savall's early music ensemble connects three great ancient musical cultures Jewish, Islamic and Christian Centuries of trade and conflict between the Christian and Arab-Islamic worlds brought texti...
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The tenor Warren Mok has withdrawn from the US premiere of Huang Ruo’s opera Dr. Sun Yat-sen, citing other commitments. The show is due to open in a fortnight. The soprano Laura Tatulescu has dropped out of Don Pasquale ‘due to sev...
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Artur Pizzaro The Autumn season at St John's Smith Square is an interesting mixture of the old and the new. There is a new Young Artists Programme, plus the Sunday at St Johns , whilst music varies from premieres of works by Harrison Bir...
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Sad news from the other side of the world: Passing of Conductor Myer Fredman. The ABC has announced the death of conductor Myer Fredman, who passed away on Friday 4th July, 2014 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia aged 82. Internationa...
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St Andrew's, London This special group of musicians displayed finesse as they forged an exhilarating path through John Adams's Shaker Loops I hadn't come across Scotland's contemporary music group, the Red Note Ensemble, before hearing t...
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Channel 4 has made a voyeuristic documentary. Press release below. The highly respectable world of classical musicians is rarely linked to addictive behaviour. In this uplifting one-off documentary, the composer and musicia...
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The Delaware Symphony (music director: David Amado) has been dancing on the edge of bankruptcy for the past five years. Four months ago, its chairwoman Tatiana Copeland quit. Bruce Kallos stepped into the emergency. Kallos died this week...
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Sandra Clark, who transitioned from a male player to female, was principal horn of the Toledo Symphony. She wrote a life-change book, titled Running to Normal. She died of brain cancer.
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Leading cultural figures on the composer as he turns 80
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Is he a fish out of water or does he submit to opera's charms?
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Michael Tilson Thomas & the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
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Throughout the Gaza flare-up, Israeli hospitals have continued to treat children from both sides of the conflict – including, it is reported, the grandson of the Gaza Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. Last week, a bunch of stud...
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In an appreciation for sinfinimusic.com, I mention in passing a profound dichotomy that I always sensed at the heart of the late conductor: He was American in his reverence for business and initiative, European in his fluent command of s...
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The Buskaid Soweto Strings Project bring to their live performances the wonder of music infused with the passions of those who play for their very lives, writes Candace Allen . The 2007 Proms season is bannered for those intrigued by the...
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It’s Guy Eshed, 35, principal flute of the faltering Maggio Musicale in Florence, where he has worked closely with Zubin Mehta. Before that, he was in Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Diwan. He will be joint co-principal with ...
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Viv and I are giving the first performance of our new coffee-concert version of the ALICIA'S GIFT show at the Buxton Festival, Pavilion Arts Centre, tomorrow at 12 noon. The story is set in Buxton, so effectively we are taking it him! Do...
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Harrison Birtwistle is 80 today. To celebrate, here are five pieces to celebrate his music, and to introduce you to his unique, elemental soundworld. Happy birthday Harry! Harrison Birtwistle is 80 today. To celebrate yet another milesto...
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Amazingly, the Crouch End Festival Chorus is 30! (I sang with them in their first concert, and they premiered my Here be Angels in 1998). To celebrate their birthday they are running a Christmas carol competition. Open to all UK re...
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Hyeon-Sik Shin from Ensemble Sinawi playing the ajaeng Korean Fusion; Ensemble Sinawi; City of London Festival at LSO St. Luke's Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Jul 8 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Traditional Korean sounds mixed with chamber, folk,...
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In the first of 10 symphony guides to coincide with performances at this year's Proms, Tom Service looks at the triumphs, tragedies and controversies of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. Mahlers A-minor Sixth Symphony is a mythical piece. Mahler ...
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By Leslie Kandell LENOX, Mass. – The Boston Symphony Orchestra looks toward the future, welcoming music director-designate Andris Nelsons to Tanglewood while pioneering a lawncast app that lets viewers choose among various camera angles.
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Reflections on the Mississippi is a tuba concerto, one of the few that probably stands a chance of entering the repertoire and becoming a popular favorite. That brings the viable repertoire for tuba and orchestra to a total of two works,...
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Blackford, Holst: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Savitri Singers / Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 12.7.2014. (RJ) Richard Blackford: The Great Animal Orchestra Gustav Holst: Suite – The Planets I was disapp...
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Aspen Music Festival (4): Soloists, Chorus, Aspen Opera Theater, Steve Mercurio (conductor), Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado. 10.7.2014 (HS) Cast: Eugene Onegin: Craig Verm Tatyana: Yelena Dyachek Lensky: Benjamin Bliss Olga: Alexa...
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Mahler: Tonhalle Orchestra, Juliane Banse (soprano), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Zürcher Sing-Akademie (chorus-master Tim Brown), David Zinman(conductor), Tonhalle, Zurich 11.7.2014 (JR) Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”) Ther...
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American conductor Lorin Maazel died in July 2014, aged eighty-four
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Peter Dickinson's 'The Judas Tree', heard by Robert Anderson. '... a notable performance ...'
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Vaughan Williams complete symphonies conducted by Rozhdestvensky
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Norman Lebrecht pays tribute to the last of the kingly conductors
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The 2014 Minnesota Beethoven Festival Chorale had a great week in Winona, MN with the legendary Dale Warland. Learn about their experiences through Twitter.
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Rossini Le turc en Italie , Il Turco in Italia at the Aix en Proivence Festival. a delicious approach to an operam which predicates on mistaken identities, fancy dress and good humour. The opera may have been written 200 years ago but it...
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The center's fall season will include the premiere of a score for handmade music boxes and prepared auto-harp by the composer and toy piano virtuoso Phyllis Chen.
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By Jacqueline Vanasse: Whether he plays in a gym for children or in the finals at the Queen Elizabeth Competition, Tatsuki Narita says he doesn’t change the way he plays: for him it’s the contact with the audience that is different. The ...
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SyndaKit | Elliott Sharp SyndaKit is an algorithmic composition, an instruction set for a self-organizing system based on bird flocking, the way RNA molecules combine and reproduce, the lateral transmission of data in African drum ...
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Wigmore Hall, London Two years after unleashing their beguiling, revelatory fusion of genres, L'Arpeggiata's Purcell project doesn't have quite the same impact The striking baroque-jazz meld that characterises L'Arpeggiata 's recent work...
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On Sunday afternoon, July 13, Sunset Center Theatre was the site of the 2014 Young Musician Showcase concert. And, what a showcase it was! This annual event, now in its twelfth year, is one of the highlights of the festival and … C...
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With John Birge at the Northern Lights Music Festival, I'm joining Alison Young this morning to talk about what's on the Web this week. Here are the stories we'll be discussing.
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Buxton Opera House Michael Chance's Orfeo is patchy, but Barbara Bargnesi's wounded Euridice is entrancingly sung in this updating of the Orpheus story With few exceptions, the UK's leading companies are celebrating the 300th birthday of...
