BACKIn today’s news: Warner Music signs a licensing deal with Mixcloud. The plans for a new London concert hall are one step further and the ABO has announced the new cohort selected for „Find Your Way“. Daniel Hope wins the Bundesverdienstkreuz. The New York times on “The Force of Things”, a false report of death, the artistic director of the Gärtnerplatz on the re-opening, the EU Youth orchestra has got to move because of Brexit.
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Warner Music signs licensing deal with Mixcloud
Warner Music is the first major record company to sign a licensing deal with Mixcloud, covering the label’s international roster of artists and recordings.
Classical Music Magazine
ABO announces 2017/18 Find Your Way cohort
The Association of British Orchestras has announced the new cohort selected for ‘Find Your Way’, its annual programme of sector-specific mentoring and placements for senior and emerging managers in ABO member organisations.
Pictures at an Exhibition reimagined for charity concert
Artists, musicians and authors have joined forces to reimagine Viktor Hartmann and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in support of London’s homeless.
The Guardian
Plans for new London concert hall move step closer after architects announced
New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro chosen from six-strong shortlist, and will work to submit a design for the building by December 2018
New York Times
‘The Force of Things,’ an Indirectly Audible Opera
In the 50 years since Robert Ashley wrote “That Morning Thing,” some strategies for making new opera have become clear.
Limelight
Reports of Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s death incorrect
Reports of the death of Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2015, are incorrect.
Musik Heute
Bundesverdienstkreuz an Geiger Daniel Hope
Der Geiger Daniel Hope hat das Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland erhalten.
concerti
2010 entschloss sich Klagenfurts Intendant Josef E. Köpplinger Münchens „anderes Opernhaus“ oder „Opéra comique“, das Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz ab 2012 zu übernehmen.
Pizzicato.lu
Umzug des EU-Jugendorchesters: Italien macht Angebot
Das ‘European Union Youth Orchestra’, das wegen des Brexits seinen bisherigen Sitz in London aufgeben muss, hat ein Angebot der italienischen Regierung erhalten
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