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Telegraph
A timeless odyssey through Beethoven
Andris Nelsons and the CBSO are about to unleash all nine of the composer’s symphonies on Birmingham – John Allison can’t wait
Independent
Play classical music in hospitals and railway stations to ‘calm public’, report says
Recommendation follows new figures that estimate around 400 public sector workers are assaulted each week
Exclusive: Exam reforms give ‘dead white Germans’ lead on the classical music syllabus
Students will now focus on German composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann
Classical Source
On 15 September, ABRSM, the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music, and its partners publish Making Music, the most comprehensive survey of the learning, progression and teaching of musical instruments ever undertaken in the UK.
Pizzicato
Met Guild Invites To ‘Brava Jessye’
On Friday, November 21, the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s 80th Annual Luncheon presents ‘Brava, Jessye!’ to salute the great soprano Jessye Norman.
The New York Times
Met Opera Cuts 22 Nonunion Jobs, Mainly Through Layoffs
The Metropolitan Opera, which promised to match the pay cuts that its major unions agreed to last month with equivalent cuts to its nonunion payroll, said on Friday afternoon that it was eliminating 22 of its 254 administrative positions, mostly through layoffs.
Le Figaro
Trop de salles de musique ne tue pas forcément les salles
Le mélomane actif, et au budget suffisant, a tous les soirs le choix entre quatre ou cinq manifestations musicales à Paris.
Le monde
Mort d’Antoine Duhamel, musicien de la Nouvelle Vague
Le composituer Antoine Duhamel est à Paris, le 10 septembre. Il avait 89 ans.
Die Welt
Er erfand die Harmonielehre, er war Frankreichs Pendant zu Georg Friedrich Händel: Vor 250 Jahren starb der Komponist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Jetzt wird sein Werk endlich zaghaft wiederentdeckt.
Musik heute
Zwei erste Preise beim ARD-Musikwettbewerb
Beim 63. Internationalen Musikwettbewerb der ARD wurden zwei erste Preise vergeben.
Klavier.de
Musikfest-Preis Bremen für Ottavio Dantone und die Accademia Bizantina
Der Organist, Cembalist und Dirigent Ottavio Dantone erhält zusammen mit seinem Ensemble Accademia Bizantina den Preis des Musikfestes Bremen 2014.
Twitter:
Music Education UK: @MusicEdUK New ‘Making Music’ report published today – a must-read. Executive summary here: http://gb.abrsm.org/en/making-music/3-executive-summary/ … #makingmusicreport #musichubs
Royal Academy Music: @RoyalAcadMusic Congrats to @RhiannonLlew, winner yesterday of the MOCSA (Morriston Orpheus Choir) Young Welsh Singer of the Year Award.
London Philharmonic: @LPOrchestra We have a new education project! LPO Soundworks is a new cross-arts project for 14-19yr olds. Details here: http://www.lpo.org.uk/education/soundworks-next-project.html …b
Le Figaro