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In our news today, Itzhak Perlman pulls out of North Carolina concert over discriminatory transgender ‘bathroom law’, Members of the German Symphony Orchestra have been joined by more than 900 amateur musicians in a spontaneous concert at a Berlin mall & Ji Hwan Park, a luthier from South Korea, won the Grand Prix at this year’s International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Making Competition.
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Itzhak Perlman pulls out of North Carolina concert over discriminatory transgender ‘bathroom law’
Itzhak Perlman has joined a burgeoning protest against ‘House Bill 2’, a law in the US state of North Carolina that has been widely criticised as discriminatory against transgender people by cancelling a planned performance with the North Carolina Symphony tonight.
abc news
Huge flashmob orchestra fills Berlin shopping centre
Members of the German Symphony Orchestra have been joined by more than 900 amateur musicians in a spontaneous concert at a Berlin mall, entertaining hundreds of spectators.
The Strad
South Korean luthier wins Wieniawski International Violin Making Competition
Ji Hwan Park, a luthier from South Korea, won the Grand Prix and €20,000 at this year’s International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Making Competition. Held every five years in Poznań, Poland, the event is the oldest lutherie competition in the world.
The Spectator
Was Opera Rara justified in reviving Bellini’s first opera? Oh yes
First operas by composers who later became great or anyway expert in writing them tend to be at best of biographical interest, to be revived mainly for people who are interested to hear premonitions of the achievements that lay ahead.
SFCV
Baroque Flutist and Beatles Expert Set for Seminar on Fab Four
Stephen Schultz, Baroque flutist, 18th-century music specialist, and professor of music at Carnegie Mellon University, teaches a 15-week Beatles music history course at the private college in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which regularly draws over 200 students and has a lengthy waiting list.
BR-Klassik
Mit Gesang andere Religionen kennenlernen
“Stimmen der Religionen” ist das diesjährige Motto von “Musica Sacra”, dem interreligiösen Musikertreffen, das seit Freitag in Marktoberdorf stattfindet.
Musik heute
DOV fordert Erhalt des Europäischen Jugendorchesters
Die Deutsche Orchestervereinigung (DOV) hat vor einer Schließung des European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) gewarnt. Die Europäische Union wolle ihrem Jugendorchester die finanzielle Unterstützung entziehen.
pizzicato
Deutsche Theater und Orchester: Künstler bekommen mehr Geld
Der Deutsche Bühnenverein als Arbeitgeberverband der Theater und Orchester hat sich am vergangenen Wochenende mit den Künstlergewerkschaften GDBA (Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger), VdO (Vereinigung deutscher Opernchöre und Bühnentänzer) sowie DOV (Deutsche Orchestervereinigung) auf eine Gagensteigerung für die an den Stadttheatern, Staatstheatern und Landesbühnen beschäftigten künstlerischen Mitarbeiter verständigt.
The New York Times @nytimes Itzhak Perlman cancels concert in North Carolina to take a stand against the state’s bathroom law http://nyti.ms/202Hzb3
Top Classical News @topcmnews ‘Why we all love Florence Foster Jenkins’ http://bit.ly/1OEn4AO #opera #ballet
Live Music Now @LiveMusicNowUK We’ve uploaded films from our #Menuhin100 conference on best practice in music outreach, supported by @ace_national http://www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lmn_news/item/69293/date/2016-05-03/title/menuhin_centenary_exploring_best_practice_in_music_outreach_from_around_the_world …
‘Loss will be significant,’ says North Carolina Symphony as Perlman joins boycott supported by Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr. Photograph: Classic FM