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Sakari Oramo named BBC Symphony chief conductor designate

Succeeds Jiří Bělohlávek at the 2013 BBC Proms

Concerts for babies

Is it ever too early to introduce your child to live classical music?

BBC Music Mag 

Sascha Goetzel

The Viennese conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra on their new CD Music from the Machine Age 

Listen to our Opera BBC Music Magazine Awards podcast

Learn more about the three recordings nominated in the Opera category

The Guardian 

Klinghoffer: don’t forget to listen to the music

The controversy surrounding interpretations of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer looks set to continue with ENO’s new production. But amid all the debate and protests, don’t overlook the music

NY Times 

Philharmonic Announces Its Next Season

The orchestra is making a fresh start of sorts next season.

LA Times 

Max Raabe’s ‘elegant experiment’

The German singer and bandleader and his Palast Orchester go 21st century retro with their new album, ‘One Cannot Kiss Alone.’

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-max-raabe-20120222,0,6311073.story

(Written on February 23, 2012 )

The Spectator

Six Of The Best Young Opera Singers.

First it was the policeman who seemed to get younger every year. Then it was the conductors. Now it’s the opera singers, writes Jessica Duchen.

The Guardian

Alice Goodman: The Furore That Finished Me.

Two decades ago, Alice Goodman wrote the libretto to The Death of Klinghoffer, an opera about a Jewish American murdered by Palestinian terrorists. It ended her career. Does she have any regrets?

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Conductor Paavo Berglund Dies At 82

Born April 14th, 1929; died January 25th, 2012.

The Independent

‘These people have never sung an opera in their lives’.

Baritone launches attack on lowbrow music industry and performers of classical ‘greatest hits’.

New York Times

Not Everyone’s In Tune Over Precious Violins.

The value of valuable violins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/sunday-review/the-value-of-valuable-violins.html?ref=classicalmusic

(Written on January 30, 2012 )