The Telegraph

The glories of Nazism and meaning what you sing

Someone asked a while ago on this blog whether it made a difference to a performer if he or she ‘believed’ the words they were singing. It is a fascinating question and the issues are complex.

Lost Edward Elgar manuscript found in council building

An Edward Elgar manuscript that dates back almost 90 years has been found in a ‘dusty’ folder in a council building.

The Independent 

Music to snooze by for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

The plans for the river pageant are an embarrassment

LA Times 

Caracas diary: A sweet Mahler’s Fourth and Dudamel-mania

What doesn’t kill you will make you fat, the Venezuelans are said to joke.

The Guardian 

Preston prepares for its unique Guild

2012 is Guild year with a series of events planned to mark the rare event

Gramophone 

Bruckner’s Ninth gains a finale in Berlin

Rattle premieres the latest edition of Bruckner’s unfinished symphony

NY Times 

Mahler Is O.K., but Gustavo, He’s Amazing

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/arts/music/gustavo-dudamel-and-los-angeles-philharmonic-hailed-in-caracas.html?ref=music

(Written on February 15, 2012 )

LA Times

Grammy Awards 2012: Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic win

The first Grammy win in Dudamel’s career

L.A Philharmonic heads to Venezuela with hopes, fears

The orchestra’s outreach and Mahler performance trip to Gustavo Dudamel’s native country has great potential, but some worry about Caracas’ crime.

Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil start things in Caracas

The orchestra is in Venezuela for the final leg of Dudamel’s Mahler Project, the recent cycle of the composer’s complete symphonies with the L.A. Phil and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in Los Angeles now being repeated in Caracas.

NY Times

New Kind of Online Dating: Classical Competitions

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the violinist Hilary Hahn and the composer David Lang have started online competitions in classical music.

The Guardian

Purcell and a pint – welcome to a new kind of classical concert

I and my fellow musicians from the OAE are currently on a pub crawl. And it’s changing the way we play and audiences listen.

FT Magazine 

The Inventory: Iván Fischer

‘People without talent don’t know what the talented are talking about,’ says the award-winning orchestra conductor

The Telegraph

Raymond Gubbay: I’m shutting up shop for the Olympics

The impresario whose “popera” upsets the purists says he is only giving the people they want. But he’s the first West End promoter to say he won’t put on a show during the Games.

Composer completes Schubert’s 200- year- old musical puzzle

An unfinished symphony by Franz Schubert is to be completed and performed live for the first time since the Austrian composer abandoned it nearly 200 years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9075388/Composer-completes-Schuberts-200-year-old-musical-puzzle.html

(Written on February 13, 2012 )