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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine to be guest soloist with San Diego Symphony
The guitarist with heavy metal band Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, will take centre stage in a concert with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Eric Whitacre reveals sketches for Nine Inch Nails a capella cover
The choral composer uploaded initial sketches of his version of Trent Reznor’s ‘Hurt’ on YouTube yesterday, performed on piano
The Washington Post
Classical music: dead or alive?
Questioning the statement: “Classical music is dead”
Reuters
Mozart museum seeks to debunk evil Salieri poison myth
It’s one of the great mysteries of music – did composer Antonio Salieri poison his onetime protege Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with arsenic?
The Telegraph
Lorde fed up with ‘lecherous gaze’ of music industry
Grammy-winning teenage pop star Lorde says that ‘the price tag of fame sucks’ and bemoans the ‘lecherous gaze’ of music industry
PR Week
Scarlett Johansson and Oxfam fall out over controversial SodaStream work
Global charity Oxfam has accepted the resignation of Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson after a spat over her commercial work for SodaStream, which has a controversial factory in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank
Der Tagesspiegel
Werner Egks Opernversion von Henrik Ibsens Drama “Peer Gynt” war bis in die sechziger Jahre ein viel gespieltes Stück. Dann geriet der Komponist in Verruf – wegen der Rolle, die er im “Dritten Reich” gespielt hatte. Das Staatstheater Cottbus stellt die Oper nun erneut zur Diskussion.
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