BACKIn today’s news: NYMAZ to extend digital music education project, YouTube ripping site YouTube-MP3 shutting down after RIAA battle, and does playing Mozart to your unborn baby really make it smarter? Kirill Serebrennikow still under house arrest, Deutsche Oper Berlin begins new season with 140,000 guests, and more music at schools in France.
Classical Music Magazine
Basca announces 2017 Gold Badge recipients
Basca (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) has announced the recipients of the 2017 Gold Badge Awards.
Music Teacher
NYMAZ to extend digital music education project
NYMAZ has received £273,000 from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Education and Learning Through the Arts Fund to extend its digital music education project Connect: Resound over the next four years.
The Strad
ARD Competition announces violin finalists
Launched in 1952, the competition focuses each year on different instrumental categories, selected from 21 disciplines. The 66th ARD International Music Competition 2017 offered four categories: violin, piano, guitar, and oboe.
Music Business Worldwide
YouTube ripping site YouTube-MP3 shutting down after RIAA battle
Good news for rights-holders: the world’s most popular online tool for ‘stream ripping’ audio from YouTube is shutting down following a legal battle with US recorded music body the RIAA.
Classic FM
Does playing Mozart to your unborn baby really make it smarter?
Studies suggest that playing music to your unborn child can improve its hearing, spatial reasoning skills and even general intelligence. But is there any truth in the ‘Mozart effect’?
Limelight
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 2018
With guests from Italy, France and Cuba, Paul Dyer’s 2018 season tells wide-ranging stories of musical journeys.
Pizzicato
Wiener Staatsoper installierte 2.000 Tabletdisplays
Zum Saisonbeginn hat die Wiener Staatsoper ein neues Untertitel- und Informationssystem in Betrieb genommen. Zwei Millionen Euro wurden investiert.
Klassik.com
Moskauer Gericht lehnt Einspruch des russischen Regisseurs Serebrennikow ab
Der russische Regisseur Kirill Serebrennikow bleibt weiter unter Hausarrest. Ein Moskauer Gericht lehnte den Einspruch der Verteidigung Serebrennikows sowie deren Forderung, den Hausarrest aufzuheben, ab.
Musik Heute
Deutsche Oper Berlin: 14.000 Gäste bei Saison-Eröffnung
Das diesjährige Saison-Eröffnungsfest der Deutschen Oper Berlin hat rund 14.000 Besucher jeden Alters angezogen.
France Musique
Rentrée en musique : un espoir pour l’avenir des musiciens intervenants en milieu scolaire
Cette année, la rentrée se fera en musique, selon le souhait du ministre de l’Éducation nationale Jean-Michel Blanquer, avec aux premières loges, les enseignants de musique en milieu scolaire, qui espèrent y voir un engagement en faveur de l’éducation musicale à l’école.
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Classic FM: Does playing Mozart to your unborn baby really make it smarter?