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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTAt BBC Prom 26 2014, Sakari Oramo condiucted the BBC Symphony Orchestra. No surprises there: he's their popular Chief Conductor, well respected for his years in Birmingham with the CBSO. The BBCSO are the best of the BBC's stable o...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music Genre: ClassicalIn classical music, percussionists go wild with drums of all shapes and sizes. Can you guess which pieces spotlight the timpani, snare and bass drums?
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to a […]
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicGrand Theatre, Blackpool English Touring Opera will be returning to the Grand Theatre, Blackpool for the first time since 2005 as part of their Spring 2015 tour. The tour, which takes in Hackney, Truro, Poole, Norwich, Sheffield, Chelten...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletAhead of the streaming of La Traviata on the Telegraph on Sunday, August 10, Rupert Christiansen choses his favourite productions
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicOpera North's Autumn season contains three fairly mainstream operas, La Traviata , The Coronation of Poppea and The Bartered Bride . But taken together they make an interesting combination of ideas about women and relationships. And with...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Sinfini
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukAustralian composer Peter Sculthorpe has been lauded following his death on Friday morning Classical composer Peter Sculthorpe has been lauded as a musical giant following his death. The 85-year-old died in Sydney on Friday morning after...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Slipped Disc
On the death of a great composer: Prime Minister Tony Abbott: A musical giant who changed the country’s music landscape forever. David Barmby, former artistic director of Melbourne’s Recital Centre: A Sydney child, I had the... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Never knowingly underhyped, the media down under are going doolally over Jonas Kaufmann. ‘Greatest since Pavarotti’? Watch. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSummerhall at Portobello Beach, Edinburgh Performed on the beach at dawn and dusk, soprano Laura Wright leads a work most memorable for its spectacular setting Before sunrise: Out of Water in pictures Taking place just after dawn or befo...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Sinfini
Escape to Paradise: The Hollywood Album -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Sinfini
The best classical moments in the movies -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicSakari Oramo Stravinsky Oedipus Rex , Beethoven, Brett Dean; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo; BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Aug 7 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Prom 28: Oramo's first Proms outing - Stravinsky's...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Peter Sculthorpe, a composer who infused the western classical tradition with the indigenous sounds and ambience of his native Tasmania, has died at the age of 85. Sculthorpe’s international breakthrough came with the first ... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The coloratura soprano Christina Deutekom died yesterday after a fall in her home. She was 82 and was renowned for a voice of exceptional clarity and precision. Born in Amsterdam as Christine Engel, she sang in all the great internationa... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Ahead of his Glyndebourne debut, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo reveals the secrets of singing high
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletChristopher Maltman Barihunk Christopher Maltman will be making his Ravinia operatic debut in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni. The performance will be at the Martin Theatre with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of J...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukEach week, a new guest hosts the @IndigenousX Twitter account. Were inviting them to tell us about who they are Im Don Bemrose, a proud Gungarri man whose mother and grandparents grew up in Cherbourg, QLD. I pursued and achieved my child...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical Voice North AmericaAmerican Tragedy, In Trimmed Form, Still Lacks Edge"> By George Loomis COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – In the first professional revival since its 2005 Metropolitan Opera premiere, Tobias Picker's An American Tragedy, about a young man who is destro...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThe Australian Ballet has a world-leading medical team that helps to keep our dancers strong, healthy and injury-free. In this intriguing video, Senior Artist Rudy Hawkes and Coryphée Dimity Azoury demonstrate the exercises devised by ou...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseUnfinished Symphony. The New Yorker, Aug. 14, 2014.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Joshua KosmanNew Music One of the unwritten rules of CD reviewing is that when a new disc comes across your desk of recent Polish music arranged for three accordions, you have to at least give it a listen. The headliners here are works by three of th...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music and VisionOn taking up the alto recorder, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Violinist.comBy Karen Rile: It was Parents Weekend at junior chamber music camp. My daughter, just out of eighth grade, had been attending this program since she was ten. As for me, I was looking forward to a reunion with all the kids, parents, and s...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Speight Jenkins, General Director of the Seattle Opera since 1983, is stepping down this weekend. But not before he sent the following handwritten note to his stage crews: Post by Save the Met Opera. -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukToronto Symphony/Oundjian (Chandos) Peter Oundjian is best known in the UK as the music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, though he's also music director of the Toronto Symphony, with whom he made this recording of Rimsk...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalGilbert & Sullivan, The Yeomen of the Guard: Plymouth Gilbert & Sullivan Fellowship, National Festival Orchestra / Jane Warwick (conductor), Harrogate Royal Hall, West Yorkshire. 4.8.2014 (RJW) Cast: Steve Borwn … S...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSirodeau (BIS, 2CDs) Viktor Ullmann is mostly associated with the extraordinary flowering of music at the concentration camp at Terezín , where he was held from September 1942 until his deportation to Auschwitz in October 194...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukKeep your ears to the ground and tune into all frequencies for music that makes special mention of the act of listening I have a theory that men love with their eyes, but women love with their ears, said the sharp-witted Zsa Zsa Gabor, r...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Research summary: Do you thrive on adrenaline – or crumple? Why do some performers thrive on adrenaline whilst others crumple? New research suggests that it’s to do with the performer’s behaviour: increased adrenaline s... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Jan Nuchelmans, 64, co-founder and director of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht from 1982 to 1999, has been sacked as artistic director of the Dordrecht Bach Festival, according to a report in NRC Handelsblad. A rough translation follows... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukNilsson/Rysanek/Resnik/Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Böhm (Orfeo, 2CDs) Conducted by Karl Böhm , this derives from a radio broadcast from the Vienna State Opera in 1965. It features one of the most striking casts ever...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The US whistleblower, granted an extra year’s asylum in Moscow, celebrated with a visit to the opera - The Tsar’s Bride, at the Bolshoi. He passed mostly unnoticed, having shed his spectacles and worn a dark jacket. Sn... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukPires/Swedish Radio Symphony/Harding (Onyx) The only sleeve note for Maria João Pires 's Beethoven album is an essay by Pires herself, in which she meditates on "music's essential power to bring out a primal simplicity, which...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalCincinnati Offers Sparkling 2014-2015 Season Cincinnati’s Music Hall, the city’s main venue for most of our large-scale musical performances, is badly in need of renovations. A tax initiative to underwrite a portion of renovation ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Susan Bender, who has worked with Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov, Simon Rattle. Phillippe Entremont and others, wrote a letter to the New York Times about the injustice that is being done to the Met’s musicians. She makes... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletIlya Silchukov and Waltteri Torikka Today marks the final day of the preliminary round of the Mirjam Helin International singing competition and five more baritones have performed. After today's singers wrap up, they will announce 16-20 ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Violinist.comBy Kate Little: Inevitably, when someone publicizes how much they practice and the number is considered in popular imagination to be obscene (e.g. 5+ hours/day), someone responds that it is not the quantity of practice but rather the qua...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Classical NotesIn a hocket, a melody is shared among two or more instruments or voices, which alternate notes.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The Met has reached agreement with the 32BJ SEIU union representing security guards, office staff and other auxiliaries. The Met had sought a five-year wage freeze, with reduced pensions and health plans. The new deal increases wages by ... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Classical NotesThe labor situation at the Metropolitan Opera continues to be tense and uncertain. Last week, it seemed as though a lock-out might be coming any day. That did not come to pass--so far at least--but the disputes between management and...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThere are "firsts" for everything in ballet—from positions of the feet to world premieres of new choreography. But some dancers might not recognize the woman considered to be the first American prima ballerina (and in ballet, holding suc...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Naxos Blog
Next week the BBC Promenade Concerts arrive at their mid-festival point. A number of programmes for the concerts being held during 15-21 August are assembled around themes; unsurprisingly, the centenary of the outbreak of the first world... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukComposed while he was a prisoner of war, Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time seems to touch the far edges of human experience, writes pianist Steven Osborne My interest in Olivier Messiaen's music started in my teens, whe...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Sinfini
CDs and merchandise from John Axelrod's trip on Route 66 -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukA composition by the outgoing festival director will feature in one of this years final concerts Jonathan Millss last season as director of the Edinburgh international festival, which opens on Friday, brings some surprises and some reson...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Sinfini
Conductor John Axelrod takes Jonny Brahms on a road trip
