BBC News

What is Silent Opera?

A new English version of Monteverdi’s Italian opera L’Orfeo is set to open in London – but audience members going along should expect a very different experience.

The Guardian

What pop music owes to the classical masters

All styles of music feed into each other. Which is why Adele’s songs owe everything to Schubert and sampling wouldn’t exist without Dvorák

The Telegraph

Black Swan choreographer: shock appointment as director of Paris Opera Ballet

Choreographer Benjamin Millepied, who met his wife Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan, has been made director of the Paris Opera Ballet in a surprising move, says Sarah Crompton.

Is it time for players to put away their penguin suits?

Orchestras are being told they must liven up. Ivan Hewett has heard it all before

The Times

Why it’s no ordinary encore with Hilary Hahn

Be careful about shouting “encore!” after a Hilary Hahn recital. You may get more than you bargained for.

Classical Music Magazine

ABO/Rhinegold awards honour UK’s backstage talent

The second ABO/Rhinegold awards, honouring the backstage talent in the UK’s classical music industry, were announced on 23 January at the Association of British Orchestras conference in Leeds.

Gramophone

Silent Opera presents Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

One of the world’s earliest musical dramas receives a 21st century makeover

The Arts Desk

Special guest presenters announced for Radio 3′s ‘The Choir’

Whitacre, Christophers and Mealor among hosts for the choral music showcase

Music Industry News Network

Sound Magic Release Orchestral Strings One For Windows V1.3 And For MAC V1.2

Orchestral Strings One was recorded utilizing the legendary acoustics in the famous Berliner Hall – home of the world class BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.

The New Age

Music industry finally on road to recovery

News that the global music industry has finally turned the corner and is on the road to recovery should help get the annual four-day gathering of many of the world’s top music execs at the MIDEM trade fair that opens in Cannes Saturday off to a good start.

Gramophone (Oliver Hyde-Tetley)

(Written on January 25, 2013 )

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 )