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In today’s news: conductor Zubin Mehta talks about Ravi Shankar and Haydn, trombonist Mathias Götz releases remix-album, and Bavarian village hosts a festival with Gerold Huber as Artistic Director. Grammy- winning flautist Dave Valentin dies at 64. Grimes’ Visions is getting remade as classical music, and RSNO 2017/18 season to celebrate 175 years of RSNO Chorus. Love letters between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears go on display, and how contemporary composers are revitalizing – and reinventing – classical music.
Fact Mag
Grimes’ Visions is getting remade as classical music
Grimes’ breakthrough album Visions has been reinterpreted by the Canadian classical ensemble Plumes for the upcoming concert series “Many Visions: Plumes Deconstructs the Music of Grimes.”
Classical Music Magazine
RSNO 2017/18 season to celebrate 175 years of RSNO Chorus
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s 2017/18 season celebrates the 175th anniversary of its founding organisation, the RSNO Chorus.
The Guardian
Love letters between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears go on display
Ardent and joyful love between composer and tenor is revealed in exhibition marking 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act.
National Post
How contemporary composers are revitalizing – and reinventing – classical music
The New Creations Festival continues on March 8 and March 11 at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto.
Press and Journal
Classical music from celebrated Scottish composer recorded for first time
A Moray pianist has unearthed lost piano music from a legendary Scottish musician.
BBC News
Music ‘could face extinction’ in secondary schools
They say music is being squeezed because of pressure on pupils to take subjects included in the EBacc school league table measure.
Der Tagesspiegel
„Ohne Musik kann ich nicht leben“
Dirigent Zubin Mehta hält sich zur Zeit viel in Berlin auf. Ein Gespräch über Ravi Shankar, Haydns “Schöpfung”, Strauss’ “Frau ohne Schatten” – und die Pläne des 80-Jährigen.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Der Posaunist Mathias Götz gehört seit langem zum Label-Kosmos der Brüder Acher. Als “Le Millipede” veröffentlicht er jetzt ein spannendes Remix-Album
concerti
Im oberbayerischen Pfaffenwinkel machte im letzten Jahr ein Festival von sich reden. 2017 finden die Pollinger Tage Alter und Neuer Musik unter der künstlerischen Leitung Gerold Hubers zum zweiten Mal statt
The New York Times
Dave Valentin, a Grammy Award-Winning Latin Jazz Flutist, Dies at 64
Dave Valentin, a Grammy Award-winning Latin jazz flutist who recorded dozens of albums and performed on six continents, died on Wednesday in the Bronx. He was 64.
WXQR
How a Yellow Cab Ride Created A Classical Music Connection
The first thing I noticed as I slid into the passenger seat of the yellow cab with my kids crowding into the back was that the radio was switched to WQXR
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Zubin Mehta vergangenes Jahr bei einem Konzert in seiner Heimatstadt Bombay. Foto- imago_Hindustan TimesDirigent Zubin Mehta