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In today’s news the Guardian reports on how the bassoon is being considered as an “engandered species”. The Occupy the Pianos Festival opens at St John’s Smith Square and artistic director Tom Morris explains to Classical FM how he wants to tackle the traditions of the concert-hall at the Bristol Proms. Also organist Johannes Zeinler wins the St. Albans International Organ Competition and Roy Haynes turned 90 years old and still stays the shiniest on the Blues Alley’s stage.
Guardian
Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra
Initiative hopes to encourage young players to take up reed instrument and pave way for promoting other ‘endangered species’
Why the difficult, eccentric bassoon is well worth saving
Despite being the butt of many musicians’ jokes, the bassoon is the natural instrument of sturdy individualists
Classical Music Magazine
Rhinegold announces ‘Occupy the Pianos’ media partnership
Rhinegold’s International Piano magazine is the media partner of this year’s Occupy the Pianos festival at St John’s Smith Square.
Classic FM
Tom Morris on tackling the traditions of the concert-hall – without resorting to gimmicks
Beethoven in the dark, a solo pianist filmed from all angles and mechanical hearts that beat in time with the players’ own: all in a day’s work at the Bristol Proms. The festival’s curator, and artistic director of Bristol Old Vic talked Jane Jones through his ambitions for this fledgling event.
Classical Source
RSNO Music Director Peter Oundjian passes the baton to eager pre-flight travellers
Klassik.com
Plácido Domingo wird zur Wachsfigur
Der Opernsänger und Dirigent Plácido Domingo erhält zu seinem 75. Geburtstag eine Wachsnachbildung im Museo de Cero in Madrid. Wie der Sänger bekanntgab, laufen derzeit die Vorbereitungen für die Erstellung der Wachsfigur.
Spiegelonline
Jazz-Legenden: Ein Country für alte Männer
Neue Kapitel des deutschen Jazz begannen in den Sechzigern und Achtzigern, als zwei Plattenprofis ihre eigenen Labels gründeten. Die Protagonisten von damals mischen heute noch immer mit.
klavier.de
Organist Johannes Zeinler gewinnt St. Albans International Organ Competition
Beim International Organ Festival im britischen St. Albans, das in diesem Jahr zum 28. Mal stattfand, wurde der österreichische Organist Johannes Zeinler mit dem ersten Preis sowie der Goldmedaille ausgezeichnet. Der zweite Preis sowie der “Peter Hurford Bach Prize” geht an den Italiener Davide Mariano.
Le monde
La « Norma » hors normes de Cecilia Bartoli
Ce 31 juillet à Salzbourg, Cecilia Bartoli a une nouvelle fois remporté, avec Norma, de Bellini, l’un de ses paris les plus risqués. Le spectacle a obtenu dès sa présentation, en 2013, au Festival de la Pentecôte salzbourgeois, (dont la diva assurait depuis un an la direction artistique) le Prix international de la nouvelle production d’opéra.
Washington Post
Roy Haynes dips into his fountain of youth at Blues Alley
Roy Haynes, who turned 90 in March, is surely the world’s greatest living jazz drummer. He’s also astonishingly exuberant and spry for a nonagenarian: At his most sluggish, he still seems 20 years younger. Indeed, Haynes was easily the dominating force of the otherwise much younger quartet (which he fittingly calls “Fountain of Youth”) that he brought to Blues Alley on Friday night.
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