Friday, July 1, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Opera in Song – Unsung Heroines: Lauren Fagan (soprano), Lucy Anderson (soprano), Olivia Boen (soprano), Phillip Costovski (tenor), Gary Matthewman (piano). Opera Holland Park, London, 29.6.2022. (CC) Clara Schumann – Drei...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
I'm very pleased to have an article in the latest issue of The Wagner Journal. It's titled "Götterdämmerung 1945: Wagnerian Fantasies in English-Language Reports of Hitler's Death." After questioning widespread assumptions that...Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
In 2016, the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück, in conjunction with the Institute for Music of the University for Applied Science (Hochschule) Osnabrück, started the Morgenland Campus. Open to 30 students from around the world, campus...Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will host its inaugural Fellowship Program starting in September 2022, with a focus on expanding training opportunities for young musicians who come from groups that are not traditionally...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
The most formidable of musicologists, one of the most formidable writers on music who ever lived, died early this morning in Oakland, California, at the age of seventy-seven. William Robin has written an obituary for the New York Times....Friday, July 1, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Penderecki, Die Teufel von Loudun: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra des Bayerisches Staatsoper / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 29.6.2022. (ALL) Production: Director – Simon Stone Costumes – Mel Page Settings...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Music Genre: Classical
Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Founded in 1944, by violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian, the 7-week summer program, nestled amongst the picturesque Adirondack Mountains, offers an immersive, professional training ground for highly-accomplished and...Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) recently announced two new honorary appointments. Violinist Nicola Benedetti has been named as the Conservatoire's Honorary President, a historic role which involves acting as an...Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Music Institute of Chicago (MIC) has named violinist Hilary Hahn as the recipient of the Dushkin Award for 2022. Established in 1985, previous awardees include the violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Rachel Barton Pine, and Joshua...Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Meadowmount School of Music (MSM) announced a new collaboration for its summer season with the neighboring town of Whallonsburg, New York. The new initiative will see Meadowmount students performing in the town's historic...Friday, July 1, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Founded in 2001, the Royal Opera House’s (ROH) Jette Parker Artists Program (JPA) now celebrates its 21st season with nine new additions and one returning artist to the program. The 2022/23 JPA singers are Canadian soprano Sarah...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Music and Vision
Watch and listen to our July 2022 newsletter - Youth Involvement in Classical MusicFriday, July 1, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Opera Holland Park, London Period instrument ensemble Figure’s semi-staging of an abridged version of Serse was full of good ideas and strong singing This was the first opera from the new period-instrument ensemble Figure , and it was...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Lauren Fagan Unsung Heroines : Clara Schumann, R. Strauss, Ilse Weber, Stefania Turkewich, Graciane Finzi, Bachelet, Rachmaninov, Madeleine Dring, Undine Smith Moore, Smythe, Dvorak, Rebecca Clarke, Stravinsky; Lauren Fagan, Lucy...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Ukraine Freedom Orchestra © 2022 Edinburgh International Festival is 75 and to celebrate it is giving out 35,0000 free tickets to four large-scale events, including circus and physical theatre, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The professional membership organisation for Opera in the UK has announced a series of online events, taking place in July, to help shape the future of Opera in the UK. From 4 to 7 July there will be a series of on-line Changemaking...Friday, July 1, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The Dunedin Consort's 2022/23 season includes a new partnership with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) with them residence at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and the two orchestras will play side by side in Jörg Widmann's...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Opera Rara – Mercadante, Il proscritto (concert performance): Soloists, Opera Rara Chorus, Britten Sinfonia / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 28.6.2022. (CC) Cast: Giorgio Argyll – Ramón Vargas Arturo Murray...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Classical Voice North America
AMSTERDAM – The 75th-anniversary Holland Festival, directed by Emily Ansenk, vibrated with issues of the day and acted as a compass for the creative currents at play across Europe. The emotional peak was Tunde Jegede's kora solos. The...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Gigout, Mozart, Saint-Saëns: Christina Ellison (soprano), Shiddharth Chand (tenor), Nicholas Forbes (organ), Anna Kexin Zhang (flute), Harrison Chau (Harp), Auckland Youth Orchestra / Antun Poljanich (conductor). Anglican Church,...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from ArtsJournal
“I’m sure the Met is thought of as a conservative institution in some quarters, [but] I believe this is no time to be conservative. I don’t think we are thought of as conservative any longer. I think over the period of time that...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The DOMINANT PRO® for cello (NO.DP400) string set is inspired by the sound of a tube amplifier and redefines tonal ideals using an innovative metal core. The set combines an airy, light sound character with pronounced, brilliant...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from ArtsJournal
Boris’s deputy, Dominic Raab, took a potshot at Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner (a longtime union rep proud of her working-class roots) for going to posh Glyndebourne while railway workers were striking. Rayner (who paid all of...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Established in 2015, the competition is presented by the University of Mozarteum Salzburg and hosted in three age categories. Open to violinists 24 and under, the senior category first prize winner will receive $30,000. Normally...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Nash Ensemble (Hyperion) Ries has been overshadowed by his master, but the pianist/composer had plenty of talent – and ego – of his own, as these chamber works show Ferdinand Ries was not only Beethoven’s pupil and amanuensis but one of...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Last year, tenor Charne Rochford's Fifth Door Ensemble made its debut at Opera Holland Park with a performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (with Jennifer Johnston and Charne Rochford, conducted by Thomas Blunt) in Rainer...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Handel, Acis and Galatea HWV49: Dunedin Consort / John Butt (conductor), Wigmore Hall, London, 24.6.2022. (AK) John Butt – director, harpsichord Nicholas Mulroy – Acis Rachel Redmond – Galatea Anthony Gregory – Damon Nicholas Scott –...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Dominic Raab’s attack on the Labour frontbencher’s attendance at Glyndebourne says more about our class-ridden approach to culture than it does about her It wouldn’t happen in Germany, and certainly not in Italy. It wouldn’t cause as...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Based in Washington, D.C., the Washington International Competition for Strings announced its 2022 prizewinners: Violin: 1st Prize, $10,000: Jaewon Wee (South Korea) 2nd Prize, $5,000: Gabrielle Despres (Canada) Viola: 1st Prize,...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Music and Vision
Opera Warwick's production of Weber's 'The Marksman', heard by Roderic DunnettThursday, June 30, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Welsh National Opera’s staging of six stories of migration is a brave and far-reaching exercise in collaboration and diversity, with a heroic effort from composer Will Todd In a week when dozens of migrants...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Verdi, Un ballo in maschera (concert version): Soloists, Chorus and Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Riccardo Muti (conductor). Symphony Center, Chicago, 25.6.2022. (JLZ) Cast: Riccardo – Francesco Meli Amelia – Joyce El-Khoury...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
With predecessors including György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Alexander Scriabin, Jenny Olivia Johnson is the latest synesthete composer to attempt.. The post Video Premiere: Wild Rumpus Performs Jenny Olivia Johnson’s Reflect...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Yesterday (29 June 2022) was the Feast of St Peter, Apostle and Martyr. St Peter is also the Patron of Westminster Abbey and so there was a rather special sung Eucharist at the Abbey. The preacher was the Very Reverend Dr David...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Adaptistration
I wish I could say Donor Advised Funds are less of a problem now than they were several years ago, but the reality is they are much worse. H/T to Joe Patti for pointing out the article from inequitable.org by Chuck Collins and Helen...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Performance. It has not been possible to trace the Viola Sonata’s first performance in the literature. It was heard on the 28 June 1946 at the Birmingham Midland Institute School of Music in a recital by Lena Wood (viola) and Tom Bromley...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Festival de Música dos Capuchos – Mozart, Haydn: Diana Tishchenko (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano), Vienna Chamber Orchestra / Victor Julien-Laferrière (conductor),...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Retrieved after dipping into Greil Marcus's forthcoming book Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Yale UP).Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Bowling Green State University, in Ohio, will welcome VC Artist Jordan Bak to their music faculty. The College of Musical Arts educates over 500 music students, undergraduates and graduates. "I'm incredibly thrilled to join a...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
At IMG Artists, VC Artist Tessa Lark joins a roster of violinists that include Hilary Hahn, Christian Li, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Julia Fischer, and Johan Dalene. “Signing with Alison Heather and IMG...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Classical Voice North America
SAN FRANCISCO – Great novels may rarely make great opera. But the high emotions and multiple deaths in Dream of the Red Chamber fit the opera profile. An adaptation by Bright Sheng and D.H. Wang is on display at the San Francisco Opera....Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Classical Voice North America
JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – With a voice that can lift you up and carry you heavenward, Davóne Tines created an emotional journey in a cycle of American songs, capped in this "Truths Be Told" program by Shostakovich's 10th Symphony. The post...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Institute for Composer Diversity’s (ICD) 2022 Orchestra Repertoire Report was produced in partnership with the League of American Orchestras. Using databases and analysis, the ICD promotes the discovery, study, and performance...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from ArtsJournal
Large cast-metal bells like the ten at the Paris cathedral (they survived the 2019 fire) emit sounds all the time: when they’re not actively ringing, they vibrate in sympathy with the various sounds around them. Bill Santana has...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from ArtsJournal
In this respect, the orchestral world is like a throwback to the postwar employment landscape, when it was not uncommon to spend your entire career in a single job, or at least working for a single company. – San Francisco ChronicleWednesday, June 29, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Barbican, London A terrific cast and the fiery precision of conductor Carlo Rizzi brought this rarity to the concert stage 180 years after its premiere Saverio Mercadante ’s Il Proscritto (The Outlaw) was first performed in Naples in...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from ArtsJournal
Mark Swed: “New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam happen to be historically vibrant centers of new music. … But new music hasn’t in those cities, as here, penetrated every pore of the classical music...Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Music and Vision
Giuseppe Pennisi describes how American music is back, alive and well at the Spoleto FestivalWednesday, June 29, 2022 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Originally commissioned for Cincinnati Opera’s centennial season in 2020, the much anticipated Castor and Patience is finally receiving its world.. The post 5 Questions to Tracy K. Smith (librettist, Castor and Patience) appeared...