- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
As most readers know, Pianist magazine is a great publication for anyone learning to play the piano (it’s also helpful and informative for professional pianists too). Brimming with interesting articles, step-by-step lessons from ex... - Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsRainer Hersch blends comedy and classical music in symphony appearance Modesto Bee Since then, Hersch has taken his unique mix of comedy and classical music to venues across Europe and the United States. He has performed at the Edinburgh...
- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicWelsh National Opera and the Lumen Prize Exhibition, the competition and global tour for digital art, have combined forces to award a new prize recognising excellence in digital art for theatrical purpose incorporating both sound and mov...
- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicAlice's Adventures in Wonderland - Opera Holland Park - 2014 Will Todd ’s opera Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was originally commissioned by Opera Holland Park as a follow up to their previous family opera, which was a production of T...
- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: In a manner both persistent and assuring, Ronald Copes returned to themes of musicality and connection during a master class he gave Wednesday at the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at Juilliard. Copes is chai...
- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Classical Life
I found this online the other day, a review I wrote for the L.A. Times in 1992 of Andre Previn conducting the L.A. Phil. The common remembrance is that Previn resigned suddenly in 1989 and never again conducted the orchestra, but, in fac... - Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Joshua Kosman[...] the Berlin Philharmonic — by some reckonings the finest orchestra in the world, if that distinction means anything — was about to announce the name of its next music director, and I figured I might as well wait a few minutes and se...
- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Joshua KosmanThe music of Aaron Jay Kernis covers a wide expressive range, from the dramatic and monumental to a more intimate demeanor. [...] the music on this new and irresistible disc headlined by pianist Andrew Russo concentrates on sheer ingrati...
- Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Sinfini Music
The greatest film and concert-hall music by this German Romantic - Thursday, May 28, 2015 from Music and VisionGiorgio Battistelli's new opera for Expo Milano 2015 impresses Giuseppe Pennisi
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThis week in classical music : Andre Watts, Accordo and more TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press It was 1963, the year of the March on Washington, when 16-year-old pianist Andre Watts made his debut with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philh...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical Voice North AmericaBy Paul Hyde CHARLESTON, S.C. - Vivica Genaux is Spanish queen Veremonda. She's frustrated about her stalled war against the Moors. What’s to account for the delay? Cavalli would sympathize. His Veremonda had been shelved since 1652.
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicTimes critics share what they’ve been listening to lately.
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalProkofiev: Betrothal in a Monastery, Capitole Orchestra and Chorus, Tugan Sokhiev (conductor), Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, 24.5.2015 (JMI) Cast: Don Jerome: John Graham Hall Don Ferdinand: Garry Magee Louisa: Anastasia...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
In the second week of his trial for the murder of his wife, the pianist Kate de Marcken, the principal cellist of the Beethoven Bonn Orchestra, Sergei Kurochkin, broke his silence for the first time. Speaking through his lawyer, Kurochki... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The International Chamber Choir Competition has just ended at Marktoberdorf. Choirs from all over the world shared in the prizes, many with new works written specially for the occasion. Imagine their dismay when the jury president, Georg... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukDocumentary maker Christopher Nupen remembers his first encounter with Daniel Barenboim, and tells the story of their collaboration that led to the legendary 1969 film, The Trout Watch a clip from the film Daniel Barenboim first swam bol...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukOn 30 August 1969, five young musicians came together to play Schubert's Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall in London . Their names: Daniel Barenboim (piano), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Jacqueline du Pr...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Yesterday, the Post revealed that born-again whistle-blower Reynold Levy had wangled himself a $600,000 golden goodbye bonus on stepping down as head of Lincoln Center. That’s on top of his $1.3m salary. Nice. Today, the Post repor... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalGioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola Soloists, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra and male chorus, dancers, Giancarlo Andretta (conductor), Gothenburg Opera main stage, 14.5.2015 (NS) Cast: Angelina (Cenerentola): Gaia Petrone Clorinda: Mia Karlss...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThe late Claudio Abbado leads his Orchestra Mozart to balance Schubert’s symphony on the cusp of Romanticism Continue reading...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalVerdi: Nabucco, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra and Chorus, Ramón Tebar (conductor), Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 14.5.2015 (JMI) Production: Bayerische Staatsoper Direction, Sets and Costumes: Yannis Kokkos Lighting: Michael Bauer (orig...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The widely-known and loved Tanya Prochazka has died at 62, after a nine-year struggle with ovarian cancer. Australian by birth, a grandaughter of the conductor Albert Coates, Tanya studied with Jacqueline du Pre and Janos Starker and pla... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Congratulations to the heroic Stephen Gould on joining the elect of the Vienna Opera. press release below. press photo: ROH/Clive Barda Der amerikanische Heldentenor Stephen Gould, der derzeit den Siegfried in Wagners “Ring des Nib... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has published a ferocious attack on the management of the Oslo Opera by its veteran critic, Professor Ståle Wikshåland. Under the headline ‘A Ship Adrift’, it attacks the chief executive, re... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
The amazing young harpist Noël Wan, winner of the Carmel Music Society’s Instrumental Competition last year, will be sharing her extraordinary virtuosity and charm this coming Sunday at 3:00 pm in Carmel’s Sunset Center. Admi... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Michael Braunfels, whose father Walter was suppressed in Hitler’s Germany and ignored for decades after, has died in Cologne, aged 98. Michael, a pianist, was a renowned Schubert interpreter. He did much to restore his father̵... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe National Dubai's World Classical Music Series wraps up with Edwin Crossley-Mercer The National Dubai's World Classical Music Series wraps up on May 29 with a performance by globetrotting opera star Edwin Crossley-Mercer. The ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSamuel Adams, Mozart, Bartók: Alexander Barantschik (violin), Jonathan Vinocour (viola), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 22.5.2015 (HS) Samuel Adams: Radial Play Moz...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Placido Domingo has pulled out of this week’s Traviata for family reasons. He explains: I am very sorry to have to cancel my upcoming performance of La Traviata in London on Thursday, May 28th. I am still in Boston and will remain ... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsNew York Times Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching 'Salome' New York Times Greetings, classical music fans. Memorial Day may be behind us, but that doesn't mean the season is wrapping up. Quite the c...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Richard Page, principal bass clarinet with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 2014, has died of brain cancer, aged 66. A popular man in the orchestra, he was also a busy and influential teacher. Our sympathies to his loved on... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
A glimmer of light and happiness from Bologna, where the new US-Italian president of Bologna Football Club, Joseph Tacopina, has launched a US fund-raising campaign on behalf of Teatro Comunale di Bologna. ‘I love the town. I love ... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMemoriam (In Memory of Memory): MamLuft&Co. Dance, Jeanne Mam-Luft (artistic director), Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio. 22.5.2015 (RDA) Memoriam (In Memory of Memory) The company: Delia Constantino, Steven Evans, Clint Fisher...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from The Opera Tattler* Notes * My review of West Bay Opera's Faust is on San Francisco Classical Voice. * Tattling * There was light whispering during the first act. Watch alarms sounded at 9pm. Audience attrition was noticeable after each intermission.
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Pointe MagazineToday, two of American Ballet Theatre’s longtime stars, Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes, retire from the company in—what is sure to be emotionally charged—back-to-back performances of Giselle . Herrera, who has danced with ABT fo...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre 's Huis Clos opened (heh) in Paris. - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectA couple of years ago, I held a few Twitter chats with some of the adult ballerinas I met on Twitter. I want to hold another one, and right now I just want to get a good idea of when might be a good time (once I get a general idea, IR...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from operaramblings
M’dea Undone; music by John Harris , libretto by Marjorie Chan, opened in the Holcim Gallery at the Evergreen Brickworks last night in a production by Tim Albery. My review, still a WIP, will appear in Opera Canada in due … ... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish I say both! The more movies about Ca […]
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish Great singing leads to my vocabulary […]
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from We left at the interval...ONP Bastille, Paris, Monday May 25 2015 Conductor: Philippe Jordan. Production: Graham Vick. Sets and costumes: Paul Brown. Lighting: Adam Silverman. Genièvre: Sophie Koch. Arthus: Thomas Hampson. Lancelot: Roberto Alagna. Mordred: Alexa...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from parterre box
etting, or surely approaching, some sort of record for sheer breadth of career (70 years!), Lucine Amara returns to the New York stage this summer as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in La Fille du Régiment , as produced by the Martina Arroyo ... - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from opera, innit?Just when you thought I forgot all about il primo amor, here’s another look at a Tito recording. Though replete with excellent – now legendary – singers, the big star here is Kertesz himself. The way the man manages to ...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectIf you follow Adult Ballerina Project on social media, you probably saw the new stickers we recently received in the mail: If you’re interested in your own, you’ve got a few ways of snagging them if you’re in the US: If...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from parterre box
To celebrate the 86th anniversary of her birth (25 May 1929), I bring to a close Beverly Sills ’ traversal of the Donizetti “Tudor Queens” with this live Anna Bolena from 1973.
