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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Violin Channel recently caught up with […] The post MEET THE PROS | Violinist, VC ‘Artist’ Charles Yang – ‘VC 20 Questions’ [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin,...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicRossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Massenet, Gounod, Bachelet, Dell'Acqua, Delibes, Thomas Jessica Pratt and Vincenzo Scalera; Rosenblatt Recitals at Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 19 2015 Star rating: 5.0 Welcome opportunity to...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Slipped DiscA New York lawyer contesting an alimony suit from his fifth wife in a London court was relieved yesterday to receive judgement that he could keep his Steinway baby grand. Counsel for Richard Fields pleaded that his third wife had won his...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsTraditional folk, classical music from Punjab Business Standard "As you are aware Punjab has always been renowned for its beautiful 'bandishes' which have enriched the repertoire of Hindustani classical music . Punjabi is th...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Guardian BBC's Ten Pieces extends classical music programme to teenagers The Guardian The Ride of the Valkyries, the most famous part of Wagner's Ring cycle, is to be used as part of a nationwide programme to encourage teenag...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukNationwide scheme will play Wagner and Verdi in secondary school halls and classrooms to encourage pupils to embrace classical music Continue reading...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalStrauss, Holst: Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano (conductor), Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore 08.05.2014 (RP) Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 The low C that opens Richard Strauss’...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicSt John's Smith Square launched its Young Artists programme last year, and the latest group of artists to benefit from the concert hall's support are recorder player Tabea Debus , violinist Joo Yeon Sir , the Ligeti Quartet and the vocal...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicOpera Holland Park is giving Jonathan Dove 's opera Flight its first professional performance in London on 6 June 2015. Directed by Stephen Barlow and conducted by Brad Cohen, the production features a strong cast with James Laing as the...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicGarsington Opera is taking its new production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte to areas where professional companies rarely go, with free screenings around the country. The production debuts on 5 June 2015 with a fine young cast including Roma...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Donizetti's Poliuto - the tale of a Christian martyr - opens the 2015 Glyndebourne Season. Here Katie Derham presents a special podcast about this rarely performed work
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsTimes Herald-Record Review: Classical music of India comes to Montgomery Times Herald-Record Music from around the world has always been of interest to the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series and its founder, Howard Garrett. Sunday aft...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Peninsula ReviewsLast Night the Pomona College Orchestra performed Fauré’s Pavane, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Brahms’ Fourth Symphony at Sunset Center in Carmel. It was a class act. Since it is not often that the Monterey Peninsula re...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost ContentMargaret Black's Delius at Home, Part 2 The House Now we will enter Delius' home, through the big hall, up a wide, winding staircase made of oak, to his bedroom, which was once the salon, and has the double folding doors of the period of...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Music and VisionMozart's 'The Magic Flute' from Bologna impresses Giuseppe Pennisi
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Scottish Opera announces 2015/16 season Classical Music The season will be Stuart Stratford's first as music director. 'I'm thrilled that the piece I'm starting with as music director is Rusalka,' he s...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTChristoph Prégardien made a welcome return to the Wigmore Hall He's long been a favourite among Wigmore Hall audiences, Thirty years ago I heard him there, singing Hugo Wolf. The audiences was in raptures, Hearing him now fee...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Globe and Mail Stewart Copeland on going from the rock world to classical music The Globe and Mail Stewart Copeland might be best known as the drummer for the Police, but his career with the trio was effectively finished by 1986. Bef...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseOn May 21 and 28, under the auspices of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, the Talea Ensemble will survey the admirably unpredictable Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter.... The Library of Congress, in collaboration with Q2, has...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsA Malaysian Farm is Playing Classical Music to its Chickens Smithsonian They write that a Malaysia and Singapore-based company called Kee Song Group uses classical music as part of its effort to “mass produce drug and hormone-free poultr...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical music review: Soluna chamber-music concert needed more polish Dallas Morning News Maybe it wasn't a good idea to schedule Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians for a chamber- music concert Monday night. Between last week'...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The Takács Quartet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin were a fine match in a Debussy-dominated programme, says John Allison
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseThe Oberlin-based composer has a strong new disc on Mode.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Ray Chen performed Lalo's "Symphonie espagnole" with t...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGeorg Baselitz has spent his life shocking the public, and the opera-lovers of Glyndebourne are his next target. The artist explains how big-money auctions have made things ‘heavenly’ for him today – and why women still can’t paint Conti...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped DiscChristiane Peitz in the Tagesspiegel says Ms Hahn had the Philharmonic audience at her feet in the penultimate concert before she retires to give birth to her first child. ‘An unbelievable woman,’ raves Christiane. Read her r...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalDresdner Musikfestspiele 2015 Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schumann:: Isabelle Faust (violin), Dresdner Festspielorchester / Ivor Bolton, (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden,, 17.5. 2015 (MC) Mendelssohn: Concert overture ‘The H...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalHaydn, Brahms: Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor (conductor), Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, 15.05.2015 (RP) Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major, ‘The Clock’ Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 High spirits reigned ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped DiscThe following notice has gone up on the former benevolent fund’s site: We want to announce that David Sulkin has decided to leave his position as the Executive Director of Help Musicians UK with effect from 6 June 2015 to pursue ot...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicGrzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki Missa Rorate , Conductus Funebris , motets; The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan; Coro Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Apr 28 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Worth exploring - music from the late baroque in Poland I had not heard of ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Opera House, London Soprano Marina Rebeka impresses with her technical skills but the production lacks conviction Continue reading...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicA visit to the Pieta , music by Vivaldi and Porpora Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kati Debretzeni London Festival of Baroque Music at St John's Smith Square Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 17 20...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsCleveland Scene Weekly Four Classical Music Events to Catch This Week Cleveland Scene Weekly The former jazz club on Cleveland's near West Side is still serving up jazz, but it's also becoming a popular venue for classical music ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Peninsula ReviewsSoloists Jonathan Vu & Steve Yoo with Conductor Dave Dally It was an enthusiastic audience at Pacific Grove Middle School Performing Arts Center last night that gave standing ovations for the orchestra and the young soloists for thei...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped DiscPowerful piece today by Peter Dobrin, arguing that Kimmel Center’s financial targets have made it impossible to invite the Vienna Philharmonic and Lang Lang to play in the city.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsDonizetti's Poliuto - the tale of a Christian martyr - opens the 2015 Glyndebourne Season. Here Katie Derham presents a special podcast about this rarely performed work
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from BarihunksPeter Brathwaite On May 24th, British barihunk Peter Brathwaite will join accompanist Nigel Foster for "Forbidden Art" at the Alderney Performing Arts Festival. The program centers around Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music), which w...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Superconductor
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from parterre boxFans of the "context-free laundry list" school of opera criticism will be happy to know that "the world’s preeminent philosopher in the field of aesthetics," Roger Scruton , has now shouldered the white man's burden of rescuing opera fro...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Opera Today
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Opera TodayOn 6 June, Jonathan Dove’s Flight touches down in Kensington, west London. Opera Holland Park is to stage the first London production of Dove’s operatic presentation of the real-life story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian exile who,...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from operaramblingsYotam Haber’s album Torus is a bit off the beaten track for me but there’s some art song on it (for some value of art song) and it has Mireille Asselin singing on one track so I thought I’d check it … Continue rea...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from operaramblingsThere may be cheerful songs in Russian but I’m not sure I have ever heard one. Certainly there were none on offer at the Four Seasons Centre today when Ekaterina Gubanova and Rachel Andrist offered up a recital of Tchaikovsky R...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Opera TodayPacific Opera Project, a small Los Angeles company, presented a production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Ebell Club with an excellent group of young singers at the beginning of what should be good careers.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from BarihunksBari-Chunk to Bari-Hunk Edwin David Vargas We introduced Edwin David Vargas to readers last year after he was inspired by barihunk Michael Mayes to get his body in shape, as well as his voice. He's been flourishing at the Brooklyn Colleg...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from parterre boxOn this day in 1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England arrested Queen Mary of Scotland.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItThe Deep South of the UK: May 19 2015 at 7.30am Am I glad to be back? You bet! Do I miss 27c? Of course not! ~~Filed under: uncategorised
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Superconductor
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Royal Ballet School » Latest newsWe are pleased to announce a prestigious line-up of guest teachers at this year’s International Summer School: Follow the links […] The post Summer School 2015 guest teachers make star-studded line-up appeared first on Royal ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights