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6th April: applications open for third Institute for Women Conductors residency and Leipzig is to name a square in honour of Kurt Masur

Thursday 6th April 2017

Classical News

In today’s news: applications open for third Institute for Women Conductors residency. To boo or not to boo? Royal Opera music chief defends vocal crowds, and The New Viral #MaskOffChallenge Turns Future’s Rap Into Masterful Classical Music. Young Euro Classic this year to include cinematic music, Spotify permits a payment for new albums, and Leipzig is to name a square in honour of the Gewandhausorchester Kapellmeister Kurt Masur. Cellist forced to leave American Airlines flight as his instrument poses ‘safety risk’ and Renée Fleming – “Rosenkavalier” may well be her farewell to staged opera.

Classical Music Magazine

Applications open for third Institute for Women Conductors residency

Women conductors from around the world are invited to apply for the third residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors (IWC), which will run 6-18 November 2017 at Dallas Opera.

TIME

The New Viral #MaskOffChallenge Turns Future’s Rap Into Masterful Classical Music

In the challenge, musicians cover the rap track with live classical renditions of their own, masterfully playing everything from flutes to violins, saxophones, cellos, and trombones.

The Guardian

To boo or not to boo? Royal Opera music chief defends vocal crowds

To boo or not to boo at the opera? The Royal Opera House would rather audiences did not but its music director, Sir Antonio Pappano, believes there is an exception.
Financial Times

How the music industry came back to life

Music was among the first industries to be digitally disrupted and music labels were badly hurt. So their recovery in developed markets (piracy remains widespread elsewhere) has useful lessons for others.

The Violin Channel

Thomastik Announce Launch of New Solo Cello Strings

Thomastik-Infeld Vienna has announced at the Messe Frankfurt musical trade fair, in Germany, the launch of the new Versum Solo Cello A & D strings

Der Tagesspiegel

Jugendorchester im Konzerthaus

Young Euro Classic diesmal mit Filmmusik

Skandalbaustelle Staatsoper Berlin

Notfalls dirigiert Barenboim auf einer Baustelle

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Spotify – Neue Alben werden erstmal kostenpflichtig

Der Streaming-Marktführer Spotify hat dem jahrelangen Druck der Musikbranche nachgegeben und lässt zu, dass neue Alben zunächst nur in der kostenpflichtigen Premium-Version verfügbar sein werden.

klassik.com

Leipzig soll einen Kurt-Masur-Platz erhalten

Ehrung für den ehemaligen Gewandhaus-Kapellmeister

The New York Times

The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera

For Renée Fleming, the superstar soprano who will sing the Marschallin at the Met, and for music, this really is the end of an era: This “Rosenkavalier” may well be her farewell to staged opera

The Strad

Cellist forced to leave American Airlines flight as his instrument poses ‘safety risk’

John Kaboff had boarded the flight from Washington DC to Chicago when the pilot asked that he leave the 737 aircraft, he says.

Twitter

BR_KLASSIK @BR_KLASSIK Lauter neue Komponisten: Der Chor des BR stellt das Programm der Konzertsaison 2017/18 vor

klassik.com @klassikcom Große des Wiener Stephansdoms wird restauriert

Kurt Masur, © Sasha Gusov