Muti to lead Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, considered one of the most talented but tempestuous personalities in Italian music, will become music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra announced Monday. via International Herald Tribune
Do women buy more lipstick when economy bad?
"You always think of the classic lipstick and stockings doing well in wartime."
Last month, Betsy Stein made a beeline for Bloomingdale's to buy a shirt, but the Nanette Lepore top she found was $280. Stein, 33, a business manager for a classical music composer in Manhattan, told herself ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Video Game Live brings gamers to the orchestra
"You would think that classical musicians might look down on video game music"
A live orchestral performance with video game footage playing above the musician's heads and concert goers dressed as their favorite Nintendo characters, it's Video Games Live. via Capital News 9
New Dallas Museum of Art exhibit lets vistiors get in touch with art
"The bumpy unseen classical within flesh."
By JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News jweiss@dallasnews.com How does an art museum create an exhibit that keeps the kids happy without boring adults - and vice versa? How does the brick-and-mortar museum ... via Denton Record-Chronicle
By LAWSON TAITTE / The Dallas Morning News ltaitte@dallasnews.com Haydn's largest, most grandiose work, The Creation , received many commensurately grand performances when it was new 200 years ago. via Quick
I'm No... - Apocalyptica / Cory Tay...
Since their debut in '96, these cello-rockers have been expertly merging two unlikey genres. via WMMS-FM Independence
German quartet performs first public classical concert in the kingdom
It was probably as groundbreaking and revolutionary as Mozart was ever going to get. via PR-inside.com
Smirnoff new president of Cleveland Institute of Music
The Cleveland Institute of Music has appointed Juilliard String Quartet first violinist Joel Smirnoff as president. via The Ledger
Grants to boost Michigan's arts, cultural organizations
BY MARK STRYKER * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER * May 1, 2008 The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded nearly $950,000 in grants to 26 arts and culture groups in Michigan. via Detroit Free Press
This week's diarist is Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Toronto's Opera Atelier. via National Post
"We intend to build on the brand's super heritage and invest to build its premier position in the market"
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Thursday May 01 2008. It was last updated at 09:26 on May 01 2008. via Surrey Hants Star
Bocelli charity video for download
"It's a short film to tell the story of strangers coming from different parts of the world, wandering in a vast ocean of sand, to water the only tree."
Italian superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli is following in Radiohead's footsteps by releasing a video directly to fans at the price they feel like paying. via Yorkshire Post
Ignore the set of Billy Budd, and you'll hear a masterpiece
"Billy Budd, king of the birds"
Throughout Houston Grand Opera's Billy Budd , an unseaworthy mechanical gizmo spins on stage - it's an annoying mechanical platform that's supposed to be the deck of the English warship Indomitable . via Houston Press
For Your Viewing Pleasure
There are some pretty unique videos on YouTube.com. I came across this one today - "...a Song Composed Entirely of 37 Cello Parts." I think you'll get a...
Source : classicalmusic.about.com | 01-mai-2008 03:52
Mstislav Rostropovich
Rostropovich, once the musical director and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, was considered one of the 20th century's greatest cellists. This time last year (April 27, 2007), Rostropovich...
Source : classicalmusic.about.com | 01-mai-2008 03:46
Raritan River Music Festival attracts classical artists, fans near and far
"But everything else that has been written for the festival has recently been recorded and that CD is going to be released in May to coincide with the festival."
Featuring a variety of small ensembles and a classical repertoire spanning more than 800 years of music history, the annual Raritan River Music Festival begins Saturday. via Home News Tribune
Review: 'Figaro' fusion imaginative, dazzling
There are a number of marriages in "Figaro," but, all things considered, the most important marriage is the inspired pairing of Beaumarchais' "The Marriage of Figaro, and Mozart's opera of the same name. via Pleasant Hill Record
Understatement the theme in Andsnes recital
The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has leaped to the top of the pack these past few years, winning one laurel after the next: a recording deal with EMI, unswerving critical acclaim and a stream of major ... via Inside Bay Area
This week's diarist is Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Toronto's Opera Atelier. via Canada.com
Last Night: Miami Symphony Orchestra at The Lincoln Theatre
Better Than: 100 years of symphonic solitude sung by Marquez himself. It's not every night that one gets to hear a hundred year span of classical music played live; then again, it's not every night that The ... via Miami New Times
Charlotte Church the 'Earth Mother' takes her precious Ruby for a stroll
"She's raring to put down the pot cleaner and pick up the microphone."
Comments Charlotte Church proved she's taking motherhood in her stride during an afternoon stroll with 7-month-old daughter Ruby today. via Daily Mail
CSO season ends with rich show
The Charleston Symphony concluded its season Friday with a poignant rendering of Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land." Scott Terrell conducted a powerful reading of Copeland's richly textured music. via Post and Courier
CSO's 'Candide' pays tribute to Bernstein
"I felt his spirit everywhere. The old man is still alive!"
It's a rare treat to hear Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" performed in its entirety. via The Post and Courier
Diva's star power shines through
With Measha Brueggergosman's media engine presently in high gear, making her first stage appearance in a Mozart opera now is certain to blur the line between critical praise and adoring hysterics. via National Post
High self-esteem is not always what it's cracked up to be, says UGA psychologist
"There are many kinds of high self-esteem, and in this study we found that for those in which it is fragile and shallow it's no better than having low self-esteem"
Oscar Levant, a mid-century pianist, film star and wit, once watched noted keyboardist and composer George Gershwin spend an evening playing his own music at a party and clearly having a great time. via EurekAlert!
Leaving Linton aside for a moment
It looks like today's big news swept away most of the other would-be Bronte news. via Bronte Blog
Houston Grand Opera's 'Billy Budd' sails straight
"There is always some flaw in it"
Even the people we think we know best move to forces we cannot know or understand. via Quick
"For string players, I feel like it's almost a duty of ours to educate and share what we're doing and what we've learned from our experience."
The relaxing hum of orchestral tuning bounced off the walls of the auditorium at West Salem High School on a day early this month. via Statesman Journal
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called."
Today is Saturday, April 26, the 117th day of 2008. There are 249 days left in the year. via The Olympian
Clint Mansell, Film Composer
Composer Profile
Clint Mansell is a composer that caught my attention several months ago after having watched The Fountain with a few friends. I stumbled across the original film score...
Source : classicalmusic.about.com | 27-avr.-2008 19:33
"It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life"
An architect of the American neoconservative project, adviser to John McCain and one of the world's foremost essayists on world politics, Robert Kagan can expect another furore with the publication of his new ... via Guardian Unlimited
Comic opera and American dreams and '60s rock play across area stages
"If I Were a Bell - The Songs of Frank Loesser."
Inspiration is a mysterious thing - sometimes the muse whispers softly in your ear, other times she turns up with Mozart and Beaumarchais, the German composer and French author/rapscallion whose work has been ... via Contra Costa Times
SNC recital Sunday features voice, guitar
St. Norbert College will present a duo recital featuring soprano Yi-Lan Niu, assistant professor of voice, and classical guitarist Christopher Cramer at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Old St. via Green Bay Press-Gazette
Russian orchestra brings romance of Tchaikovsky to capital
"We find it easy to play music by Italian composers because both are emotional, soft and full of passion. German music is a little tough because the tenor is different"
New Delhi, April 25: The conductor of a Russian orchestra said his group enjoyed playing a rich collection of Western classical works by famous composers like Pytor Tchaikovsky here since the Indian audience ... via Newkerala.com
World-acclaimed Vietnamese pianist to release new CD
"In presenting the CDs of famous pianist Dang Thai Son, our company is doing its utmost to bring Vietnamese audiences valued musical products"
A CD compilation of Vietnamese high profile pianist Dang Thai Son's favourite classical pieces will hit the streets on May 2. Distributed by the Phuong Nam Film Company, the collection includes 13 CDs, ... via VietNamNet
A charming 'Bride' at the opera
"When I took over as artistic director, one of my goals was to expand out season incrementally"
Last fall, Pasadena-based Celestial Opera went head-to-head with Los Angeles' biggest opera company, offering their version of Beethoven's "Fidelio" just months after Los Angeles Opera opened its season with a ... via Pasadena Star-News
Yet another sign of how marginalized and ostracized theatre culture is with " America ": Carly Smithson might be the first "American Idol" contestant to be voted off the show for blasphemy. via The Playgoer
Cal Phil to present Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
"There are so many folk tales out there about the Brandenburg concertos"
There are two kinds of history involved in the California Philharmonic Orchestra's concert tonight. via Whittier Daily News
"Although it's filmic in many places it's also of incredible quality, some of it"
A Danish choreographer has dug up a forgotten film score by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev and turned it into a ballet danced by Cuban star Carlos Acosta. via The St. Petersburg Times
Every American Idol Night Should Be Broadway Night
"Memory", from Cats . Andrew Lloyd seemed quite started by Jason's dreads, while Jason was too high to even know what the song was about: "I didn't know a cat was singin' it."
Last night's AI was, in my humble opinion, the best episode of the season. And not just because I was an awkward child who listened to Broadway soundtracks. via Best Week Ever Blog
I'm kidding , but how fun to see some of our favorite Broadway ballads brought to the Kodak Theater stage. via Popsugar.com
Berlin's Holocaust memorial to become stage for classic open-air concert
BERLIN : The Holocaust memorial in Berlin will host a classical concert next month on the third anniversary of its opening, the foundation responsible for the memorial announced Friday. via International Herald Tribune
San Diego's Carly Smithson is Voted Off 'Idol'
In the end, even Jesus Christ Superstar couldn't save San Diego's favorite Irish lass, Carly Smithson , from moving on to the next round of "American Idol." Smithson, who this week belted out "Jesus Christ ... via About.com
Berlin Philharmonic May Vote Out Conductor
English conductor Simon Rattle may end his contract with the Berlin Philharmonic amid rumors of turbulence between him and his musicians, a spokesman said. via The Post Chronicle
Pulpit to culprit: Sex trap claim plunges cantors into war
"If indeed it was Rand, it brings into question why he would be allowed among civilized Jews."
A rivalry between two of Israel's most famous cantors has spilled over from the exalted world of prayer into allegations of a sexual entrapment plot that includes hidden cameras, a police inquiry and a female ... via The Morning Call
Court overrules parents' objections to blood transfusion for twins
The High Court has granted the HSE an order allowing it to give a blood transfusion to severely anaemic twins if they need it when they're born. via The Belfast Telegraph