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Orchestras ‘still hostile to women’
Although there are hundreds of female musicians, very few orchestras have female directors and conductors
Limelight Magazine
Australian Chamber Orchestra and Dawn Upshaw head the impressive list of this years winners
Gramophone
The Bolshoi Theatre has a new music director: Tugan Sokhiev
Sokhiev replaces Vassily Sinaisky at the Bolshoi
Classic FM Online
Boy with no arms learns to play trumpet with toes
Jahmir Wallace, a 10-year-old student from Phillipsberg, New Jersey, has learned to play the trumpet despite being born without arms
Classical Music Magazine
Southbank Centre looks to 21st century in 2014/15 season
The Southbank Centre itself has commissioned works from Steve Reich, Anna Clyne, Terry Riley, Unsuk Chin, Kaija Saariaho, Simon Holt and, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, James MacMillan
The Telegraph
Danielle de Niese: New generation of opera stars to combat ‘fat lady sings’ parody
Danielle de Niese, the opera singer, argues outdated stereotypes about the genre must go, and signals the end of ‘the fat lady sings’
The Independent
British orchestras are in danger of losing top billing despite rising ticket sales
Funding reductions mean our leading ensembles may have to cut back on the things that give them world status
The Telegraph