- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalSullivan Spectacular: Harrogate G&S Festival, The Crown Hotel, Harrogate, 5.8.2014 (RJW) Speakers:Dr. Ian Bradley, James Hendry, Jana Polianovskaia, Stephen Turnbull, Professor Robin Wilson, Martin Yates. The success of this f...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
For Toronto folks wanting some more or less academic background on opera in general and the upcoming COC season in particular there are a few options under the cut featuring the COC, University of Toronto, Opera Canada magazine and the ... - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTIf you do only one thing to remember the First World War do this : watch David Olusoga's powerful documentary Martial Heroes on BBC i-player (link here) This opens up a whole new dimensions which many British people know nothing ab...
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This is Alexandra Kalinowski, a former opera singer and classical pianist who now writes her own. And rides it. We like this. You? “Circles” by AK from alexandra kalinowski on Vimeo. - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicGabriella Swallow appears 10 August Creating a classical music concert series in a way which is new, innovative and will attract newcomers to the genre is a talisman for many groups. On Sunday 10 August, a new venture launches at the The...
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Fascinating article on Musicians on Call, an org that brings live music to bed-bound, critical and dying people in seven US cities. Read here. pictured: Rolando Villazon as a medical clown - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicYvonne Howard and Joseph Wolverton photo credit Fritz Curzon Bellini Norma ; Yvonne Howard, Joseph Wolverton, Heather Shipp, conductor Dane Lam; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Aug 8 2014 Star rating: 4.5 Thrillingl...
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Newly retrieved film of Paul Hindemith conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in 1949 conveys some degree of tension between the composer, forced to emigrate in the late 1930s, and the somewhat threadbare resident players. The commentary say... - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
The news from New York has been rather dire these last few weeks, cher public; La Cieca is the first to admit that. - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletAhead of our live stream on Verdi's La Traviata at Glyndebourne on Sunday August 10 at 5.45pm, listen to an in-depth analysis of the opera about a 'tart with a heart'
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Vasily, Vilde, the vest… Click here at 7pm London time. - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSlint | Prom 37: Steve Reich | Green Man | Jabberwocky | Frank Fairfield | Huw Warren Continue reading...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletMy treasure box contains the opera&concert tickets from all the performances I have attended for the past seven years. And also many programs, most of them signed by the artists. To my great joy, I found this one. It dates back...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalEdinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 (2) – Bach, B Minor Mass: Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle, (conductor), Canongate Kirk, 07.08.2014 (SRT) Ludus Baroque comes together only a few times a year. They always do the B minor Mass at the...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalThe Story of Harrogate’s Royal Hall, Malcolm Neesam, historian, The Crown Hotel, Harrogate, West Yorkshire. 4.8.2014 (RJW) To put the Festival’s surroundings in context a talk about the start of entertainment in Harrogate and its buildi...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalA New York Reviewer Leaves Seen and Heard to Write Music Reviews for the New York Times Congratulations is in order for our young reviewer from England who has been providing brilliant reviews for Seen and Heard and for Bachtrack and ha...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Violinist.comBy The Weekend Vote: When I first wanted to play the violin, my mother's response to the idea was, "No, you are going to play the piano!" When I pointed out that we did not actually have a piano in the house, she relented. This meant, th...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Music and VisionThe Apollo Chamber Players, impress Howard Smith. '... this scantily adorned traditional music derives straight from the heartbeat of regions in Southern, Eastern, and Central Europe.'
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Music and VisionAustralian composer Peter Sculthorpe died in August 2014, aged eighty-five
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker is widely acknowledged to be the perfect version of the ballet, and a big part of its charm is the lovingly researched design by John Mcfarlane. As we prepare for the upcoming “Nuts... - Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThe Lubbock Symphony Orchestra opens it 2014-15 season on September 9th with Renée Fleming as guest artist. Music Director David Cho conducts.
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical NotesAugust 9 is the 100th birthday of the conductor Ferenc Fricsay (1914-63). Along with many recordings, he left behind a fascinating documentary for German TV, showing how conductor and orchestra work together in rehearsal. For about 40 mi...
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- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classics TodayForget the movie, Abbado’s Alexander Nevsky is more vivid than anything you’ll see on the screen. With gutsy singing from the London Symphony Chorus, a fine alto solo from Obratsova in “The Field of the Dead,” and...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classics TodayThere are a handful of complete recordings of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet, including Previn (EMI), Gergiev (Philips), Ashkenazy (Decca), Ozawa (Deutsche Grammophon), and this one, featuring Lorin Maazel and the Cleveland Or...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletIn typical Proms fashion, BBC Prom 28 saw Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex performed in an eclectic programme which started with Beethoven's Egmont Overture and also featured Electric Preludes by the contemporary Australian composer Brett Dean. ...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Sir Neville will conduct Beethoven's First Symphony and Bruch's First Violin Concerto more than 50 years after he first appeared on stage
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Steve Donoghue, a reviewer we trust on Open Letters Monthly, considers it a tour de force. Read review here. - Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical NotesClassical MPR's Jodi Gustafson spotted this video of a talent-show performance by a group of fifth-graders. The music and the performance will make you smile.
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical Life
Here’s a short promo for the new documentary “Stravinsky in Hollywood.” The filmmakers cue in some of Stravinsky’s music to movies he wrote it for (though it was not used). See what you think.
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Issue 8 of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Magazine is out. The Business of Music by Thomas Deneuville Irony and Melancholy are the Same by Matt Mendez Faculty and Students Challenge Each Other in Missouri by Don Clark The Failure of Music Educatio... - Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Conductor Sakari Oramo focused on some unusual, introspective pieces, says John Allison
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Classical NotesThink you can name that tune hearing only the drums? Explore the percussive side of classical music with this quiz from our friends at NPR Music.
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSage Gateshead Gardner developed an instant rapport, igniting individual sections throughout the mysterious nocturne like fireflies What is the difference between the National Youth Orchestra and a full-time professional ensemble? Very l...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukIn the first of a series of exclusive videos from this year's classical programme at the Edinburgh International Festival , the Hebrides Ensemble perform an extract from Stravinsky's 1918 parable The Soldier's Tale. The ensemble's artist...
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The Scottish composer John McLeod, 80 this year and widely feted, was thrilled to learn that his work, The Sun Dances, was to receive a London premiere at the BBC Proms. photo (c) Wojtek Kutyla The performance, by the BBC Scottish... - Friday, August 8, 2014 from Culture » Michael WhiteLast night I was at the unexpected Proms premiere (it was an 11th-hour substitution for another piece) of Brett Dean’s creepily evocative concerto for electric violin , Electric Preludes. And digging around this morning, I see that there...
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Last Friday night, Peter Gelb announced a suspension of his lockout threat to give federal mediators a chance to save the Met. Over the weekend he agreed to open the books to an independent auditor. For the past week, a tense silence has... - Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukHe conducted the CBSO at 19 and the Berlin Philharmonic at 21, but it has not always been easy for the prodigy Claudio Abbado called 'my little genius' There are few institutions that enjoy an anni versary more than the Proms . This year...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from - Classical RSS FeedThe first time I heard a piece by Louis Andriessen, I watched an audience of classical musicians flee to the exit, terrified that the deafening volume would permanently damage their hearing.
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Nicholas Collon and his trendy Aurora Orchestra are going to perform Mozart’s 40th symphony from memory, in what is claimed to be a first at the Proms. Can you see the point? We can’t… press release: In what promises to... - Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Albert Hall, London Other conductors may find more tenderness in the score, but Oramo made the whole thing taut and tragically inevitable Oedipus Rex, the opera-oratorio that's arguably the greatest of Stravinsky 's neoclassical ac...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTAt BBC Prom 28 2014, Sakari Oramo conducted 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 of...
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This week’s profile is of Grace, who runs Little Prince Billy–a dance and lifestyle blog. Check it out–and learn more about her below! When did you start doing ballet as an adult? On my 18th Birthday (I’m now 24).... - 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?
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to a […]
- 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...
