BACKIn today’s Classical News: UK Music proposes law to protect music venues, Alistair Rutherford breaks another world record. Matthias Bamert is to be the head conductor of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov is to be the new head conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Also a brief history of Eastern German Label Amiga.
Classical Music Magazine
UK Music proposes law to protect music venues
UK Music has revealed plans to protect music venues threatened with closure.
Choir and Organ
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire announces new head of organ
Daniel Moult is to succeed Henry Fairs as head of organ at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
The Telegraph
An opera singer is locked in a High Court battle with her film writer former boyfriend over who wrote the script to a Hollywood blockbuster.
Playbill
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Musicians Get 21 Percent Pay Raise
The musicians of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra have been awarded a 21% pay raise following a three-year pay freeze.
Limelight
Alistair Rutherford, The Running Viola, strikes again
British violist smashes Guinness World Record for running the marathon dressed as a musical instrument.
NPR
Opera Director Yuval Sharon Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant
American opera and theater director Yuval Sharon has earned one of the most prestigious – and lucrative — honors in the arts world.
The Washington Post
Bychkov becomes new chief director of Czech Philharmonic
The Czech Philharmonic says Semyon Bychkov has been appointed as its new chief conductor and music director.The orchestra said Monday that Bychkov assumes his full duties at the beginning of the 2018-’19 season.
Codex flores
Bamert Chefdirigent des japanischen Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
Der Schweizer Dirigent Matthias Bamert wird ab April 2018 für vorerst drei Jahre Chefdirigent des japanischen Sapporo Symphony Orchestra.
Musik heute
Bychkov neuer Chefdirigent der Tschechischen Philharmonie
Semyon Bychkov (64) ist neuer Chefdirigent der Tschechischen Philharmonie. Der US-Amerikaner russischer Herkunft unterschrieb am Montag einen Fünfjahresvertrag, der mit der Saison 2018/2019 beginnt, wie das Kulturministerium in Prag mitteilte
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
70 Jahre Plattenlabel Amiga. Geschichte von Einflussnahme, Anpassung und Zensur
Vor 70 Jahren presste und vertrieb das Label Amiga die ersten Schallplatten im Nachkriegs-Deutschland. Zum Jubiläum erzählt eine Ausstellung die Geschichte der Plattenfirma.
