-
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Music and VisionOn taking up the alto recorder, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Classical NotesIn a hocket, a melody is shared among two or more instruments or voices, which alternate notes.
-
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
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
-
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...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Adrian Brendel, Alfred’s son, has been appointed cellist of the long-running Nash Ensemble. Congrats both sides. press release: CELLIST ADRIAN BRENDEL APPOINTED MEMBER OF NASH ENSEMBLE NASH CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON AT WIG... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Sinfini
Conductor John Axelrod takes Jonny Brahms on a road trip -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Sinfini
Some of the characters at the Edinburgh International Festival -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The Residentie orchestra of The Hague has been cleaned out of 75,000 Euros. The theft came to light during the annual accounting procedure. Curiously, it was almost the same amount as the concurrent payoff to the last chief executive. Th... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletSUNDAY 10 AUGUST at 17.45 BST Verdi’s La Traviata streamed live from Glyndebourne The stream will appear HERE via The Telegraph or HERE at Glyndebourne ~~ Cast and creative Review from The Guardian Photo gallery and audience react...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicMy opinion piece on classical music and its wider relationship to the arts, Classical music is in danger of functioning as a thing apart , is on the Classical Music magazine website .
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
I went last night to see my first Norma for 20 years and found myself wondering all over again why Bellini had put his best aria just 20 minutes into the piece, leaving the rest of the first act hanging in limbo. During which time I trie... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Albert Hall, London The violinist brought an thrilling, organic ebb and flow to William Mathias's Violin Concerto: he and BBCNOW are on tremendous form "A genuine discovery for everyone," is how violinist Matthew Trusler ...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Christie Connolley Even our favorite opera stars wer […]
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Coming up on Sunday, La Cieca (not pictured) will host a live chat during the webcast of La traviata from the Glyndebourne Festival. -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Melissa Wimbish Here at Operagasm, we have decided t […]
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletWashington National Opera (WNO) today announced details […]
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Melissa Wimbish We’re getting into the thick o […]
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Classical NotesGiven the popularity of cat videos on the Internet, I suppose it was inevitable a cat would perform a piano concerto. Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piecaitis created this work, and our Music Through the Night audience embraced it.
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Last night at Walter Hall, as part of the Toronto Summer Music Festival, Chris Maltman and Graham Johnson gave a recital that explored the experience of war through song. It was a long and varied programme with twenty two songs …... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Classics TodayThere’s a long tradition of transcribing/arranging string quartets for string orchestra–not only numerous Beethoven settings (including Mahler’s of the Op. 95 F minor and the Bernstein/Mitropoulos Op. 131 and 135) but a...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Slipped Disc
We regret to report the death of Frank Shipway, a British conductor of vast experience. Frank, who was 79, was killed after a to-vehicle crash on the A342 at Wedhampton, in Wiltshire. He was driving a Jaguar XJ8 that collided with a Vau... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicIn Praise of Saint Columba - The sound world of the Celtic Church; Barnaby Brown, Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Geoffrey Webber; Delphian Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 25 2014 Star rating: 5.0 Imaginative exploration of the sou...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThis year's Glyndebourne on Tour season includes touring versions two 2014 main house productions, Tom Cairns' production of Verdi's La Traviata , and Frederic Wake-Walker's production of Mozart's La finta giardiniera along with a reviva...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicStephen McNeff - Prometheus Drown'd; Nova Music Opera Ensemble , Artistic Director/conductor George Vass, Director Richard Williams Reviewed by Guest Reviewer Jill Barlow on Jul 30 2014 Star rating: 4.5 World premiere of Stephen McNeff's...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost ContentPre-Great War Pastoral Music This essay is not a history of British pastoral music. However, the genre existed for a number prior to the Great War. If we hold to Ted Perkins three point definition of pastoral music it is necessary to exc...
-
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThis audio clip features yesterday's Dido from Calvados and Aneas from Amsterdam as Figaro and Rosina in Bordeaux.
