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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
‘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