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In today’s news: BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have announced ten academics selected for the 2017 New Generation Thinkers scheme, and the Edinburgh International Festival has announced the programme for its 70th anniversary season. A portait of 25-year old cellist Harriet Krijgh, and the New York Philharmonic announced next president and chief executive officer: Deborah Borda, and conductor Kurt Masur wants the International Kurt-Masur-Institute to subsist for younger generations.
Classical Music Magazine
New Generation Thinkers 2017 revealed
BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have announced ten academics selected for the 2017 New Generation Thinkers scheme.
Edinburgh International Festival announces 70th anniversary season
The Edinburgh International Festival has announced the programme for its 70th anniversary season, which will take place 4-28 August.
Music Business Worldwide
Abbey Road Studio Launches Two New Recording Spaces
Abbey Road Studios is bidding to attract “a whole new generation of artists” with a pair of new studios which open in London this week.
The Stage
Disney to fund black musical theatre students at Royal Academy of Music
Three students will receive full scholarships for the school’s one-year postgraduate course, thanks to money from Disney Theatrical Productions.
Die WELT
Das sind die schönsten Stellen der Beethoven-Sinfonien
Hier klopft nicht nur das Schicksal: Ein subjektives Listical unserer Lieblingspassagen der neun Sinfonien Beethovens.
concerti
In aller Bescheidenheit erarbeitet sich die 25-jährige Cellistin Harriet Krijgh großen Ruhm
Über Generationen hinweg war der Dirigent Kurt Masur mit seinem humanistischen Gedankengut ein wichtiger Impulsgeber. Seine Überzeugung will das Internationale Kurt-Masur-Institut auch für nachfolgende Generationen lebendig halten
Die Morgenpost
Ensemble saust mit angelegten Ohren durchs Finale
Dirigent Teodor Currentzis mit MusicaAeterna im Konzerthaus
The New York Times
A New York Philharmonic Coup: Deborah Borda Is Named the New Leader
So it was nothing short of a coup for the troubled Philharmonic to announce on Wednesday that it had poached one of the most successful arts administrators in the nation to become its next president and chief executive officer: Deborah Borda
The Charlotte Observer
Unclassifiable Black Violin keeps kicking down musical walls
The answer for Black Violin has always been all of the above.
Music History @today_classical #Today in 1894 FP of #Massenet‘s opera Thais at the Paris Opéra, in Paris. #MusicHistory #classicalmusic pic.twitter.com/8jBq9rsiHF
Klassik in Berlin @KDCBerlin Berliner Bühnen mit leichtem Besucherrückgang http://klassik.com/?7O4wO #Berlin
Kurt Masur © Christian Steiner