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Produced in cooperation with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the international jazz composition competition is presented by JAM MUSIC LAB University (JMLU). This year's competition paid tribute to composer Leonard...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The $30 million Digital Accelerator Program's aim is "to help cultural non-profit organizations stabilize and thrive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic through strategic improvements to their technology infrastructure,"...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Meadowmount School of Music was established in 1944 by pedagogue Ivan Galamian and offers a 7-week summer program in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York for aspiring professional string players. Former students...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Violin Channel recently sat down with Mark Hayman, new Executive Director of the renowned Meadowmount School of Music, in upstate New York. Tune into The Violin Channel every Wednesday at 6:00 PM ET to hear the talented...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from Music and Vision
Mike Wheeler listens to the Richard Roddis Singers, performing for the first time in nearly a year and a halfWednesday, August 4, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - Frederick Long, Richard Burkhard, John Savournin- Opera Holland Park, Charles Court Opera (Photo Ali Wright) Gilbert & Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance ; Daisy Brown, Peter Kirk,...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall, 1 – Zemlinsky, Brahms: Michael Collins (clarinet), Adrian Brendel (cello), Michael McHale (piano), Cadogan Hall, London, 2.8.2021. (CS) Zemlinsky – Clarinet Trio in D minor Op.3 Brahms – Trio for Piano,...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The third of of stage and film director Carson Gilmore 's films reinterpreting classic arias. Here we have Russian-Persian mezzo-soprano Roksana Zeinapur in 'Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix' from Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila , accompanied by...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Franz Welser-Möst From Silence: Finding Calm in a Dissonant World ; Clearview Books Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 3 August 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A thoughtful, poetic yet trenchant meditation on the music and its role in today's...Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from Adaptistration
While it’s heartening to see nonprofit performing arts organizations demonstrate an ability to roll with the punches throughout the pandemic, it’s good to see municipalities begin to step in and provide guidance in the wake...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
Aspen Music Festival [9]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 30.7-1.8.2021. (HS) Program 25: Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Aspen Chamber Symphony / Erina Yashima (conductor), 30.7.2021. Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.1 in C major;...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from ArtsJournal
In the face of (the) modernist revolution, Saint-Saëns (kept) churning out tasteful, perfectly formed, self-consciously harmonious music. – The GuardianTuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) — the independent federal agency that uses its funding and organizational capabilities to support the arts in the United States — announced the appointment of two new arts leaders as part of the...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
We’re coming to you from the historic Koch Foundation Townhouse in New York City for the fourth concert in the series of eight The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performances — in honor of the late visual and performing...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Gilmore and Braun will join the renowned Navarra String Quartet as first and second violinists, respectively. The two new violinists will replace Magnus Johnston and Marije Ploemacher and join current violist Sascha Bota and...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
"Each one of these pieces, these great masterpieces, is like a friend, like a person you’ve known for so many years," Shaham reflected on ABC Classic earlier this year. "I enjoy so many of them, more and more as time goes by."...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
He succeeds conductor Myron Michailidis in the role, who has directed the orchestra since 2018. Prior was selected from 111 applicants for the position throughout Germany and abroad — he was chosen based on his spirited conducting...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from ArtsJournal
At the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, there are currently 13 openings in the violin, viola, bass, flute and percussion sections, a high number of openings for the roughly 100-member ensemble. – Pittsburgh Post-GazetteTuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Ventris' responsibilities will include working with students on the Faculty’s examined performance modules as well as coordinating performance opportunities. "I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ve just been appointed as...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Bravo!Vail Music Festival, which is held each summer against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, ran at almost full capacity this year despite the challenges posed by COVID-19. The Violin Channel caught up with the festival's...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from ArtsJournal
“The campaign against classical music is worth examining in some detail, for it reveals the logic that has been turned against nearly every aspect of Western culture over the last year. – City JournalTuesday, August 3, 2021 from ArtsJournal
The games are moving beyond the John Williams fanfares and national anthems, writes Michael Andor Brodeur. “And not just as background, but as a means of making the ultimate athletic test of human achievement more human.”...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Premiered online, the Opera was co-created with librettists David Henry Hwang and circus director Tilde Björfors. The 150-minute production takes audiences on a spectacular adventure into the world of the circus and the performers...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from Music and Vision
A selection of new recordingsTuesday, August 3, 2021 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Since 2015, New Music Gathering has taken a novel approach to conferences by instituting a gathering of music creators. I.. The post New Music Gathering 2021: “Money?”, Ethics, and Sustaining a Creative Life appeared first on...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Navarra Quartet (Photo Matthew Johnson) It is all change at the Navarra String Quartet as the quartet welcomes two new members. Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and Laia Valentin Braun are the new first and second violinists (replacing...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from Adaptistration
July, 2021 saw three articles in traditional media outlets that examine how Asian classical musicians face discrimination at various points in their career. The New York Times published two articles on July 21, 2021. The article by...Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Antonio José incompleto ; Adriana Vinuela, Elisa Rapado, Lina Tur Bonet; Stone Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 30 July 2021 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) An intriguing exploration of the songs and instrumental music of the Spanish...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
Three Choirs Festival [7] – Haydn, The Creation: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Gabrieli Roar, Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh (conductor). Worcester Cathedral 1.8.2021. (JQ) On the...Monday, August 2, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
We’re coming to you from An Appalachian Summer Music Festival in Boone, North Carolina this evening for a LIVE concert with “The Pianist with the Hair,” Julian Gargiulo. For this performance, Julian invites his audience to abandon...Monday, August 2, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
In preparation for their 2021-22 season, this announcement by the San Francisco Opera (SFOpera) is to ensure the safety of everyone attending concerts at the War Memorial Opera House and the Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera. Such...Monday, August 2, 2021 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Sibelius for mobile iOS app allows users to alternate between iPad and desktop without needing to import or export files — with projects saved to iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, or other iOS-supported cloud services. This mobile...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
First Night of the Proms – Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, MacMillan, and Sibelius: Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Allan Clayton (tenor), Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone), BBC Singers (chorus-master: Martin...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Classical music | The Guardian
His Carnival of the Animals is widely played and loved, but there’s a great, great deal more to Camille Saint-Saëns. As the Proms marks his centenary, we salute a composer of wit and compression who loathed excesses of emotion Too...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Schakenborg Castle, Denmark The present circumstances do not seem propitious to organising a new music festival, but that is just what the Danish Clarinet Trio is doing. Taking place from 13 to 15 August 2021, the inaugural Schackenborg...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Music and Vision
Giuseppe Pennisi reviews 'La bohème' in RomeMonday, August 2, 2021 from Classics Today
Vítěslav Novák’s Piano Concerto is a melodious early work, part Liszt and (in the finale) part Dvořák, but none the worse for that. Like just about everything this composer wrote, it displays a certain soulful melancholy which,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Seen and Heard International
Aspen Music Festival [8]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 27-29.7.2021. (HS) Program 22: Daniil Trifonov (piano), 27.7.2021. Debussy – ‘Pour le piano’ Szymanowski – Piano Sonata No.3 Op.36 Prokofiev – ‘Sarcasms’...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Classics Today
What are these people doing playing Mahler? Yes, it’s nice that the Düsseldorfers can do it accurately, if not alluringly, and Fischer does have some ideas about the music (mostly bad ones), but that’s no excuse to produce...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Dame Sarah Connolly, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dinis Sousa at Sage Gateshead April 2021 (photo taken from live-stream) Saturday 18 September 2021 not only marks the start of the Royal Northern Sinfonia's 2021/22 season, performing in...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Classical music | The Guardian
Glyndebourne, Lewes Mané Galoyan is a revelation as Luisa, a radiant presence in Christof Loy’s production with a slimmed down but still striking London Philharmonic Orchestra It took nearly a decade for Verdi’s Luisa Miller to be staged...Monday, August 2, 2021 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
White People Killed Them, out now on the indie label SIGE Records, is an invigorating new recording that merges the.. The post “White People Killed Them” Builds Democratic Spaces with Chacon, Dieterich, and Trammell appeared...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Classics Today
Monday, July 26, 2021– Ann Arbor, MI: In September 2019, after decades of researching and consolidating vocal works by African Diaspora composers, Dr. Louise Toppin launched the African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP) database, which...Monday, August 2, 2021 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
My previous ‘Tricky Corners’ article focused on finger articulation, specifically relating to Chopin’s Étude in F major Op. 10 No. 8, a study on which I was working with a student. You can read it here. Today’s...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Soprano Caroline Branchu as Julia in Spontini's La Vestale Berlioz wrote in his memoirs, ' My religion is that of Beethoven, Weber, Gluck, Spontini ', yet Berlioz' great admiration for Spontini's three major French operas, La Vestale ,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Adaptistration
We’ve been talking a lot about academia this summer and there’s another must-read entry that should go on your reading list. This one is from concert saxophonist and educator Lois Hicks-Wozniak, who recently wrote about her...Monday, August 2, 2021 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Listeners are presented with a conundrum when listening to Malcolm Arnold’s music. It is often described as either ‘light’ or ‘heavy’. This disparity also illustrates the troubled personality of the composer. On the one hand, there is...Sunday, August 1, 2021 from ArtsJournal
How it’s working onstage: “When the guy comes to the rehearsal room he sometimes has this suspicious look. Especially in the beginning, when people were moving their chairs a little bit, he was like, ‘Don’t do...Sunday, August 1, 2021 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Three Choirs Festival [6] – Ireland, Howells, Gibbs: Guy Johnston (cello), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Njabulo Madlala (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson, Adrian Partington (conductors)....