BACKIn today’s news: Mariss Janson to extend contract with Bayerisches Rundfunk Symphonieorchester to 2024. Record season for Düsseldorfer Tonhalle. ISM and Musicians’ Union announce code of practice. Trouble in Tahiti: watch Bernstein’s swinging one-act opera. Composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere. Spotify stock prices soar. The student tackling gender equality in the music industry. Brahms & Wagner in a musical feud. Opera singer Antonio Barasorda, regular at the Met, passes away. Humperdinck’s opera “Hänsel und Gretel” most performed in Germany in 2016/17 season.
Rhinegold
ISM and Musicians’ Union announce code of practice to tackle discrimination
The ISM and the Musicians’ Union (MU) have announced a set of principles to tackle and prevent bullying, harassment and discrimination in the music sector.
Music Business Worldwide
Spotify is worth more than $33bn, as stock price hits another all-time high
It’s been just over three months since Spotify floated on the New York Stock Exchange.
The story of the company’s valuation since that fateful day (April 3) has, so far, been one of a consistent climb.
The Guardian
Trouble in Tahiti: watch Bernstein’s swinging one-act opera – video
Opera North won terrific reviews for its production of Leonard Bernstein’s bittersweet one-act satire of suburban angst.
The Seattle Times
Known for his scores to such films as “The Hunger Games” and “Pretty Woman,” the prolific film composer has written a new work for the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s ongoing 2018 Summer Festival.
FE News
Student takes on gender equality in the music Industry
A young woman from South & City College Birmingham is using her coursework project to highlight the issue of gender inequality in the music industry.
Limelight
Did You Hear About Brahms’ Musical Feud With Wagner?
Among the 19th-century’s numerous musical skirmishes, one of the more waspish has to be that between Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner.
Merkur
Lebensprojekt München: Mariss Jansons bleibt bis 2024
Die Zeit der Flitterwochen, des himmelhoch jauchzenden Honeymoons ist schon lange vorbei. Mariss Jansons und das Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, das ist vergleichbar mit einem in innigster Selbstverständlichkeit und Zuneigung verbundenen Paar, das Verrücktheiten nicht mehr braucht als Gunstbeweise.
NMZ
Rekord-Saison für Düsseldorfer Tonhalle
Mit drei ausverkauften Konzerten von Mahlers 8. Symphonie unter der Leitung von Adam Fischer ist die Saison 2017/18 in der Tonhalle Düsseldorf zu Ende gegangen.
klassik.com
Mozart führt Opernstatistik 2016/17 des Bühnenvereins an
Engelbert Humperdincks Oper “Hänsel und Gretel” war in der Spielzeit 2016/17 laut der Werkstatistik des Deutschen Bühnenvereins die meistgespielte Oper in Deutschland.
Platea Magazine
Fallece el tenor Antonio Barasorda, habitual del Met de Nueva York
Tal y como informan medios puertorriqueños, el tenor Antonio Barasorda falleció el pasado 9 de julio de un infarto, en San Juan de Puerto Rico, a los 65 años de edad.
Alban Berg’s manuscript of the prologue of ‘Lulu’. It was written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday.
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Trouble in Tahiti (c) Alastair Muir