- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsGourmet Symphony: Classical music goes to the saloon Washington Post (blog) Did you miss the splashy Valentine's Day debut of the Gourmet Symphony, which paired gourmet food with classical music ? Now you have a chance for an even mo...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsToronto Star Classical musicians embrace public exhibitionism in search of new fans Toronto Star They were hearing music by popular American choral composer Eric Whitacre and Canada's Healey Willan, classical musicians in the reperto...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicArvo Part, Thomas Tallis, Jean Mouton, John Sheppard, Gregorio Allegri; The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips; the Cadogan hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 14 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Music ancient and modern as the vocal ensemble revisi...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3As Welsh National Opera's Peter Pan opens, its librettist Lavinia Greenlaw explores the dark side of JM Barrie's classic
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicPeter Pan in Cardiff - Iestyn Morris (Peter Pan), Marie Arnet (Wendy) & WNO Chorus - Credit: Clive Barda Richard Ayres opera Peter Pan receives its UK premiere tonight (16 May 2015) when Welsh National Opera (WNO) performs it in Card...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from JDCMB( NB: contains spoilers. If you haven't seen the ROH Król Roger yet, and you're going to, and you don't want to know what they do with it, look away now and come back afterwards...) There's a live streaming tonight of Karol Szymanowski's...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
Kristine Tarozzi & Dancers Those of us who are senior citizens and do not have teenage children (or grandchildren) might have rather a hazy idea of what kids are up to in high school these days. Perhaps we imagine them in our …... - Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The formidable Norwegian pianist tells Ivan Hewett why he's bringing all five of Beethoven's piano concertos to the Proms
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBrossé, Beethoven, and Barber: Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano), Soovin Kim (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Alan Morrison (organ), Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Dirk Brossé (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukFrom Björk and FKA Twigs to a Gerhard Richter/ Arvo Pärt double-header, here’s your guide to this year’s Mif, now celebrating its 10th anniversary Continue reading...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThis year’s Manchester international festival sees the world première of The Immortal, a new work for orchestra and chorus by one of Britain’s brightest young composers – who talks here about love, death and setting your brain on fire wi...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukFor this year’s Manchester international festival, the great German painter and the earnestly spiritual Estonian composer have worked together for the first time. It might seem a strange pairing, but their careers are full of connections...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical music : Two cinematic scores, dull Rachmaninoff from FWSO Dallas Morning News Friday night's Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra concert, at Bass Performance Hall, opened the final weekend in the orchestra's classical season....
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Like three girlfriends on the go at the same time? A bit too much to handle. The marathon man is Andriy Viytovych, principal viola of the orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the concertos he will be playing are by Walton, Bartók and H... - Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Arts Desk Classical CDs Weekly: Messiaen, The Knights, Jim Rattigan The Arts Desk Newcomers should read Alex Ross's lucid chapter on Messiaen in The Rest Is Noise; no writer has ever demystified this potentially forbidding music ...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Music and VisionThe English Symphony Orchestra permanently renames its Composer-in-Association Chair in memory of John McCabe
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Music and VisionThe Berlin Philharmonic spends eleven hours voting for a new chief conductor and fails to reach a decision
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The actor Alec Baldwin joked at a New York fundraiser this week that he wanted to name his baby-on-the-way after the late music director of the New York Philharmonic. According to Page Six. - Friday, May 15, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Michigan-based Verdehr Trio, comprising violinist Walter Verdehr, […] The post Michigan’s Verdehr Trio Announcement Retirement After 43 Years appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceIt has been announced today that […] The post London’s Bonhams Auction House to Close Musical Instrument Department appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News So...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Classics TodayFive years after my favorable 2002 review of George-Emmanuel Lazaridis’ Schumann solo CD debut I welcomed his equally distinctive Liszt B minor Sonata and Paganini Etudes. Lazaridis’ third solo disc, devoted to Schubert, consistently fas...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source21 year old French cellist Edgar […] The post French Cellist Edgar Moreau Awarded Swiss Arthur Waser Career Bursary appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source .
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Archival footage from the 2009 Queen […] The post FLASHBACK FRIDAY | VC ‘Artist’ Ray Chen – 2009 Queen Elisabeth Comp 1st Prize [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings &am... - Friday, May 15, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Alice Coote’s thoughtful, irreverent, mind-and-body bending dissertation this week on performing out of your given gender is essential reading for everyone who sings mezzo, has dealings with mezzos, or is thinking of asking one out... - Friday, May 15, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Leipzig Quartet have today announced […] The post Leipzig String Quartet Announce New Replacement 1st Violinist appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source .
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Joshua KosmanMost major composers have a glorious anomaly hidden somewhere in their catalog — a piece that sounds nothing like their other work, that represents an act of impersonation or a creative path not taken. Winsome melodies and often ingratia...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsHuffington Post How Amateur Musicians Are Shaking Up New York's Classical Music Scene Huffington Post The musicians are not paid to be in PACS and many are successful professionals in law, medicine and finance. The group is one of ma...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsLatin Post EXCLUSIVE: Cristina Pato on 'Latina,' Yo-Yo Ma & Saving Classical Music Latin Post LP: You perform a wide range of musical genres including classical music and jazz. Attendance to classical music performances has d...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Slipped Disc
A a 17 year-old Korean, Yubeen Kim, blew everyone away at last December’s Geneva flute competition, but the judges lacked the courage to give him outright first prize. No such doubts n Prague today, where he stormed to victory. Boo... - Friday, May 15, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseThe JACK Quartet plays obscured-distorted-redacted by Amadeus Regucera, a young Bay Area composer.
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Violinist.comBy The Weekend Vote: How long have you been playing the violin or viola? This morning I was reading a quote from Pablo Casals, who was asked at age 90 why he continued to practice. His answer: "Because I think I'm making progress!" Certa...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsWOODTV.com Symphony combines shadow art with classical music WOODTV.com GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) World class performers will put on a dazzling display of shadow art accompanied by the gorgeous sounds of the Grand Rapids Symphony. “Symp...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukA soap set in a food bank, the National Theatre relocating to Zurich, Gove TV … our cultural soothsayer imagines what the arts will look like under our new government Continue reading...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukCountertenor Iestyn Morris is recreating the role of Peter Pan in Richard Ayres’ opera for its UK premiere. What does it feel like to be the singer who has clocked up the most flight hours in Europe? One of the drawbacks of working on a ...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicThe program will be directed by Luis Perez, an actor and choreographer who has led the musical theater program at Roosevelt University since 2008.
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from BarihunksCraig Verm's photo from the 2015 Barihunks Calendar Barihunk Criag Verm, who was featured in our 2015 Barihunks Calendar, will perform a free recital on May 23 at the Dallas Museum of Art. The recital is sponsored by the Dallas Opera, wh...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from BarihunksThe Verdi Requiem , one of the greatest works of the Italian repertory will get its first ever performance in Florence on Sunday, May 17th. Florence, South Carolina that is, not Florence, Italy. For the record, the Requiem , which premie...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from operaramblings
The Ensemble Studio got to do their thing last night with their annual main stage performance; this year, of course, Joan Font’s production of The Barber of Seville. This year only one role was split; Andrew Haji singing Almaviva ... - Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsAs Welsh National Opera's Peter Pan opens, its librettist Lavinia Greenlaw explores the dark side of JM Barrie's classic
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- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Opera TodayNew York Opera Exchange’s production of Carmen from May 8th to 10th highlighted that which opera devotees have been saying for years: Opera, far from being dead, is vibrant and evolving.
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from Pointe MagazineIt's easy to convince ourselves that there's no free time in our schedules for an extra cross-training session or catch-up dinner with an old friend, especially as spring performances and school deadlines approach. And sometimes that's t...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from operaramblings
Following on the indie opera theme, Bicycle Opera Project have announced details of their 2015 season. Things kick off with a preview concert at 10pm at Mazzoleni Hall on May 21st as part of the 21C festival. It will feature … Co... - Friday, May 15, 2015 from opera, innit?I discovered I can never have enough Cléopâtre, and they all must be experienced in countries known for their chocolate. As you might have gleaned from my Akhnaten post(s), Ancient Egypt related stuff scores high with me (except for Aida...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from BarihunksCharles Rice and Gelena Gaskarova in Eugene Onegin British barihunk will be making his role debut as Eugene Onegin in Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece in Nantes and Angers. He previously performed the role of Zaretsky in the opera at t...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreIn the past, when the Metropolitan Opera season ended in mid-May, opera-loving New Yorkers went into a funk because there was very little to entertain them in the warm months. This has changed with the advent of many small companies with...
- Friday, May 15, 2015 from BarihunksZachary Gordin appears to have found a gym in San Antonio, TX Barihunk Zachary Gordin is performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. The performance will be available online on May 17th at 7 PM CST. Th...
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- Friday, May 15, 2015 from BarihunksRandal Turner It's just been announced that Randal Turner will be replacing Christoph Plessers as Ned Keene in Britten's Peter Grimes at the Theater Koblenz. This will be his role debut and his third Benjamin Britten character, having pr...
