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Friday, February 6, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
One of the modern historical sites of classical music will be bidding the world farewell in the near future. Steinway Hall, the 90 year old home of Steinway & Sons pianos will become something different this year. The historic piano ... -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from JDCMB'Stars' by VOCES8 from VOCES8 on Vimeo . There's such a thing as beauty in music. Actually there are many different things such as beauty in music. You can find it in the darkest, most terrifying concepts from Wagner and Mahler, in the e...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Violinist.comBy The Weekend Vote: When it comes to our fingers, the pinkie can be a particularly weak link for us violinists. Today we are talking about the left-hand pinkie, our "fourth" finger, which is usually required to stretch at the same time ...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBarbican, London Mark Elder’s Pathétique made a powerful case for the work’s place in the Romantic canon while Susan Graham brought superb control to Les Nuits d’Été Continue reading...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical :NEXT launches 2015 programme and innovation award Classical Music Music industry congress Classical :NEXT is to introduce an innovation award at the four-day event's finale in Rotterdam on 23 May. Classical :NEXT director ...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical Life
A pretty good Ride. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSibelius, Nielsen, Frances-Hoad, Taylor, Nicolson, Powers, Knotts. Fenella Humphreys (violin), Nicola Eimer (piano) Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. 4.2.2015 (LB) Sibelius– Five Pieces, Op. 81 Nielsen – So...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Susan McCulloch, a Senior Professor of Voice at London’s Guildhall School of Music and a performance consultant for the Royal Opera House’s Young Artists Programme, has shared her introduction to students with friends. We found it ... -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
This was Radio Shack’s Superbowl ad a year ago, watched by tens of millions. The time-warp electronics chain went bust today. -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Opera House, London Bryn Terfel, returning to the title role, is slightly outshone by Adrianne Pieczonka’s tour de force in Daniel Dooner’s sea-blown ghost-ship revival Continue reading...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Ousted from Denmark by the closure of his radio orchestra, Adam Fischer ( brother of Ivan) has been named chief conductor in Düsseldorf. -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsSheffield City Hall hosts weekend of classical music Matlock Today English Chamber Orchestra will be performing Mozart Symphony No.38 'Prague', Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending and Fal...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukJonathan Nott’s move to Geneva will coincide with a new concert hall for the city, Jansons battles on for a hall in Munich fit for his world-class orchestra; and if rumours are to be believed, a similar project might help lure Rattle bac...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Argus Young approach to classical music The Argus Optimism and youthful exuberance are the hall marks of Schubert's Fifth Symphony, the final work in the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's Sunday afternoon concert. Thomas Carr...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Yes, it’s them, again. Oh, Canada. British cellist Richard Harwood tried to book a seat for his instrument on Air Canada. They got out the tape measure and said, No. Here’s, what Richard tells us: In need of booking a ... -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from - Classical RSS FeedMaking music in response to external stimuli is as old as the hills. It has always underpinned cinema – think of the pianists accompanying silent movies, or the celebrated soundtrack which Miles Davis created for Lift to the Scaffold by ...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Following a blast from Anne-Sophie Mutter, the heads of Bavarian Radio have issued a public onslaught on the minister-president, Horst Seehofer, demanding to know why he went back on his commitment to build a new concert hall. We publish... -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Glenn Donnellan, a violinist in the National Symphony Orchestra, plays acoustic in the orchestra – and electric on a baseball bat. Watch. He’s on tour this week. -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsJaipur loses connoisseur of Hindustani classical music Times of India Prakashji not only promoted Hindustani classical music , but also made many ' classical music literate'. He along with his wife Shubha Devi would be invited fo...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsPerformance and classical music listings Philly.com Beauty and the Beast From the team that created Arden's "Cinderella" comes a bold new telling of this classic tale. Closes 2/8. Arden Theatre, 40 N. 2d St.; 215-922-1122. ...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classics TodayThis recording was originally issued in 1998 on the Opus 111 label to international critical acclaim. After Opus 111 was acquired by the enterprising French Naïve group in 2000, it has since been reissued numerous times (this is the sixt...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicGuerrero, Lobo, Belling; Ensemble Plus Ultra; St John's Smith Square Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Dec 20 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Guerrero re-imagined in concert of ancient and modern from young vocal ensemble The Christmas concert (Saturda...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
A persistent audience pest was arrested last night at the Vienna Opera after a police chase through the most expensive boxes. The man, 63, was finally cornered and handcuffed in the Gustav Mahlersaal. The intruder had a habit of attendin... -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicJoanna MacGregor Satie, Stravinsky, Cage, Part; Joanna MacGregor, Kate Howden, Joseph Havlat, Tom Lee, Paul Stoneman; Kings Place Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Jan 8 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Around Satie, a programme of minimalism and more i...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Slipped DiscThe long-running, rough-and-ready Radio Shack, with 2,400 stores across the country, has finally gone bust. It never bothered much with display and marketing and customer comfort, but where else would you find that missing accessory? Now...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3In Tudor times you could be a businessman, musician and a spy: Ivan Hewett investigates the murky history behind a musical manuscript
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsSpalding Guardian Classically -trained pair making music accessible to the masses Spalding Guardian “When playing at a venue or in a town where there isn't necessarily a thriving tradition of classical music , there is a need to thro...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost ContentGranville Bantock had many literary and topographical influences on his music including Oriental, Greek and Pagan. He also wrote a number of works inspired by Scotland, the land of his patrimony. Many of these are of a programmatic natur...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsJakarta Post An electrifying classical Indian music performer Jakarta Post A tradition of playing classical music had run in the family for hundreds years so that he never thought of doing anything else other than being a musician, Bhatt...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBeethoven and Shostakovich: Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 30.1.2015 (BJ) Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2; excer...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Claire Allen: Memorization is an important aspect of performance. It's also the part of performance that people freak out about the most, at least among my students. Here are some tips both for basic memorization AND for those who are...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukO2 Arena, London Veteran composer thrills audience with evening ranging from Italian pop to spine-tingling classics from his 400-soundtrack repertoire Continue reading...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsCincinnati.com Seven things to know about ' Classical Smackdown' Cincinnati.com Pianist Frederic Chiu describes "Classical Smackdown," as a wrestling match between contrasting composers with audience voting, "Ameri...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsRugby Observer Classical music winter season Rugby Observer The ensemble will perform 'Come now, a roundel and a fairy song', a newly devised programme to mark the Bard's birth, which will also feature Clifford Rose, a founde...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Joshua KosmanFor something like six generations, the Bach clan turned out dozens of musicians, many of them also named Johann, who turned the family into a byword for the art. For their mostly splendid concert in Palo Alto’s First United Methodist Ch...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Music and VisionNaxos announces the launch of its high-definition and lossless classical music streaming service, ClassicsOnline HD.LL
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Music and VisionA vow to never again speak French, from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 & Prokofiev No.2 -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Sinfini Music
The award-winning Norwegian composer inspired by film music. -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Six classical musicians with really excellent hairdos -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Sinfini Music
An essential playlist of the very best classical music -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsAnonymous 4's "1865" is in the Top 25 on @Billboard Classical Chart! No. 9 on Traditional Classical Chart! http://ow.ly/IzRef @A4tweets
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsOpera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 6-12 New York Times Classical Music . Cantata Profana (Friday) The young composers, instrumentalists and singers of this enterprising ensemble present an intriguing program titled “Reimadriga...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsMust a person hold Messiaen's religious beliefs to be moved by his work? #JuilliardFaculty Paul Jacobs discusses http://buff.ly/1CXdUGM
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets“Vertigo” @MaestroMitchell #Hitchcock #BernardHerrmann http://bit.ly/1Axkuo4
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets#DYK coming up 2/8 Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra & Chorus, 2/12&14 Sibelius & Schoenberg http://s.cleveland.com/0kFrAIK via @clevelanddotcom
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsTchaik 6 related flute spring injury #sufferingforart pic.twitter.com/EanicLpfOi
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSibelius, Prokofiev, and Bruckner: Katherine Chi (pianist), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC, 2.2.2015 (GN) Sibelius: Valse triste, Op. 44 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C majo...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets@nashvillesymph @8thAndArgyle @centsportsplex We're looking forward to an awesome Nashville weekend! https://www.wannadolocal.com/nashville/blog/10-awesome-things-to-do-in-nashville-this-weekend-8 …
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsBut it has been a great day. We will continue to test and tweak the new site until the official launch next week when we launch new season!
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItThe weather here in the deep south of England is typical of February. Freezing ( well, relatively, especially if you are reading this and live in parts of Europe or the US! ) in the morning, sunny spells throughout the day and the odd un...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from parterre box
" Aida to help bring an end to Sarasota Opera's Verdi Cycle" -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1649 the claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland was declared King of Great Britain by the Parliament of Scotland. -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish Are you tired of paying fees to acce […]
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectThis week’s profile is of Jessica Bloxom. Read on to hear why she picked up ballet in December! When did you start doing ballet as an adult? I’m 31, and I just started December 2014. Did you ever take lessons as a kid? I took...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsBryn Terfel and Andris Nelsons team up for a rewarding revival of Wagner's masterpiece, says Rupert Christiansen
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Angela Gheorghiu fan blogThat's new x 3. New place, new company, new program. Angela Gheorghiu and guitar player Milos Karadaglić will be great together! Pieces by Dowland, Schubert, French songs, popular Italian, Spahish, Napolitan and Brazilian songs... Put it...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from singer for all seasonsAs it is really freezing outdoors, with patches of snow here and there and a white Sainte Victoire in the background, these two concerts on Saturday are fantastic. At 2pm on BR Klassik: Anja Harteros! ( Demanding programme, certain...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Pointe MagazineIt seems the most natural place for a dancer to perform is within a dream. Once the stage transports you deep into the world of the ballet, the audience experiences a surreal vision. Many ballets incorporate a dream scene, but Petipa’s&n...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Superconductor
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksKevin Thompson returns to the SF Bay Area as Osmin Bass-barihunk Aaron Sørensen just wrapped up a successful run singing his first Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Houston Symphony. Now it's Kevin Thompson's turn ...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from opera, innit?Today I thought I’d go for a bit of Janáček – From the House of the Dead. There’s nothing wrong with it, just not the most exciting writing for the voice. If it were a symphony I’d think “the orchestration i...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Opera TodayArizona Opera presented Eugene Onegin during and 1999-2000 season and again on February 1 of this year as part of the 2014-2015 season. In this country Onegin is not a crowd pleaser like La Bohème or Carmen, but its story is believable a...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from parterre box
Karita Mattila is a gift to this planet. -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreA staging of Richard Strauss's Salome at Northern Ireland Opera is causing controversy after the company decided to add nudity to the climactic "Dance of the Seven Veils." The nude scene amounts to a 10-second change to a 95-minute show,...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreIn my first article of the year I resolved to find ways to get more people to the opera. In the process, I hope to have more input from readers. Many of you (whether you work in opera or are members of the audience) write to me privately...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1919 Mary Pickford , D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks launched United Artists. -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish British composer Joby Talbot and lib […]
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Operagasm(via American Opera Projects) Experience the creation o […]
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsWant to see Les Misérables for £15? There are ways to get hold of cheap tickets for West End shows - and for performances outside the capital too
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical Ballet News
2015 Prix de Lausanne is under way and it looks exciting! This year’s contestants arrived at Lausanne on Monday, February 2 ready to learn and share their dancing skills. The week is practically half way gone. Here are the first th... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksNicholas Lester (left) & Peter Brathwaite (photos from English Touring Opera) The English Touring Opera is kicking off their new Spring season with some barihunks in key roles. Peter Brathwaite, who has been a regular on this site an...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksDavid Shipley British bass-barihunk David Shipley was one of five applicants out of 370, who were chosen to join the prestigious Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Applicants from 59 countries c...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Boulezian
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Ballet Bag
Maia Makhateli, principal with the Dutch National Ballet, comes from a true dance family. Her father runs a ballet school in the United States and... The post An Interview With DNB Principal Maia Makhateli appeared first on The Ballet Bag . -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
Mariusz Trelinski will direct Tristan und Isolde for Metropolitan Opera in a production that will premiere there on opening night 2016. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Opera TodayAnita Rachvelishvili recently performed the title role in Carmen broadcast by The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD. Here she drops by for a little chat with our Maria Nockin.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from opera, innit?Go get yours (Wigmore Hall and Barbican). I started with booking for ladies Roschmann+Uchida (twice!), Mingardo and Invernizzi, all at Wigmore Hall in May-July then St Matthew’s Passion (at Easter) and Il ritorno d’Ulisse (th...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Opera TattlerSopranos Kathryn Bowden, Glastonbury, Connecticut Cree Carrico, Detroit, Michigan Amina Edris, Christchurch, New Zealand Madison Leonard, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Meredith Mecum, Hershey, Pennsylvania Toni Marie Palmertree, Fleetwood, Pennsy...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Superconductor
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from BarihunksSoloman Howard in Approaching Ali Bass-barihunk Soloman Howard just wrapped up a reprisal of his performance as boxing great Muhammad Ali in DJ Sparr's Approaching Ali with the North Carolina Opera. Howard sang in the world premiere of t...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Superconductor
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from OperagasmThis article by the one and only George Shirley was fea […]
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
"Don’t bother with The Loft or The Boy Next Door : the most spine-chilling thriller currently playing isn’t on the screen of your local multiplex but on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera." -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1968 Golden Rainbow , starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé , opened at the Shubert Theater. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish Damn, Noah Stewart. Werk.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectThe idea for this post and brainstorming session is pretty much completely stolen from Philly Love Notes, a local blog here in Philadelphia. But since I know that I really needed to go through a similar thought process here on ABP, I fig...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from operaramblings
There’s 20cm of snow on the ground and more forecast. The groundhog consensus is a long winter. So, here are a few upcoming concerts and other events that may help get you through the rest of the winter. On February … Conti... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from operaramblings
Yesterday’s lunchtime concert in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre consisted of early works by Olivier Messiaen written for his wife, the violinist and composer Claire Delbos. The first piece was the Theme et variations for violin... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from BarihunksDmitri Hvorostovsky onstage and backstage for The Demon We have photos and we have the video!!! Yes, we have this sexy backstage photo of über-barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky as he readied for his role debut in Anton Rubinstein’s 1871...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Joyce DiDonatoIn addition to her highly anticipated performances at The Met in La Donna del Lago, Joyce DiDonato can be seen in recital and in concert this winter around the New York City metro area, beginning with a performance at Carnegie Hall as pa...
