BACKThe Guardian
Portrait Of The Artist: James MacMillan
‘My high point? Writing a piece for Celtic FC: my heart filled with pride’.
Schubert: Ferocious, Tender, Sublime
Schubert’s short, prolific career changed history. As Radio 3 devotes a season to him, musicians and artists reveal the one work they can’t live without.
The Rest Is Noise
A Presidential election year is again upon us, bringing with it more politically inflected speech-music videos.
BBC Music Magazine
English National Opera Dominates Opera Categories At The Oliver Awards
Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage also nominated for his opera Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House
Gramophone
Classical Music Gets A Raw Deal At South By Southwest
The music festival in Austin, Texas, hosts its third nonclassical record label night – with mixed results.
BBC Four To Broadcast Angelic Voices
Documentary examining the lives of Salisbury Cathedral choristers.
Composer Heiner Goebbels Receives 2012 Ibsen Award
Goebbels will speak at Birmingham’s Frontiers + festival.
LA Times
Esa-Pekka Salonen To Carry Olympic Torch For London Games
Esa-Pekka Salonen is pretty good at wielding a conductor’s baton, but how will he fare wielding an Olympic torch?
The 100 Cellos Of The Piatigorsky International Cello Festival
There goes the Disney Hall stage.
Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music Blog
Everyone’s Going To…Classical:NEXT
It’s the big news in the classical music world: a new trade fair for the industry, to be held at the Gasteig in Munich at the end of May, organised by the same team that does WOMEX.
The Telegraph
Katherine Jenkins Hasn’t Got The Voice Or Technique To Sing Opera – So Why Does She Pretend She Can?
Is it not ironic that the woman complaining in the tabloid press about being bullied via a fake Twitter account is, when all is said and done, essentially faking the art of singing opera? Steve Silverman writes
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/stevesilverman/100061641/katherine-jenkins-hasnt-got-the-voice-or-the-technique-to-sing-opera-so-why-does-she-pretend-that-she-can/