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In our classical news today, a stolen three century old violin returns, BBC Proms sells record number of tickets in first hour of booking and the BBC Young Musician Competition 2016 announces the winner of the strings category final. Also, composer Joseph Bertolozzi creates a composition from the sounds of the Eiffel Tower and James Levine leads his last opera as Met Music Director after 40 years.
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Stolen Three Century Old Violin Mysteriously Returned
Rosemary Siemens wasn’t sure if she’d ever see her signature violin again after it went missing last week.
Classical Music Magazine
BBC Proms sells record number of tickets in first hour of booking
A record 57,551 tickets were sold in the first hour of booking for the BBC Proms 2016.
Classical-music.com
BBC Young Musician strings winner announced
The winner of the strings category final of the BBC Young Musician competition 2016 has been announced as 16-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
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Cellist Yoon-Kyung Cho wins Musicians’ Company Prince’s Prize Competition
Korean cellist Yoon-Kyung Cho has been named the winner of the Musicians’ Company Prince’s Prize Competition, held at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London last week. She receives £10,000 and a Musicians’ Company silver medal, in addition to the £500 audience prize.
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Paris Will Have One Viale Di Canti
In May, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris will inaugurate their Viale dei Canti, an innovating work on the exterior walls of their building in the 7th arondissement.
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How One Man Made The Eiffel Tower Sing
Composer Joseph Bertolozzi has created a composition from the sounds of the Eiffel Tower, striking practically every surface he could reach and recording it.
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Levine Leads Last Opera as Met Music Director After 40 Years
The cast walked off the stage and left conductor James Levine to watch and listen Saturday as the orchestra cheered and the Metropolitan Opera House audience broke into rhythmic applause.
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Budapest Festival Orchestra protestiert gegen Subventionskürzungen
Das Budapest Festival Orchestra hat in der ungarischen Hauptstadt mit einem spontanen Freiluftkonzert gegen Subentionskürzungen protestiert. Chefdirigent und Mitgründer des Orchester Ivan Fischer sicherte den rund 2.000 Zuhörern zu: “Wir lieben Budapest, wir lassen Budapest nicht im Stich”.
Klassik heute
Karl-Amadeus-Hartmann Gesellschaft ehrt Kirill Petrenko
In Anerkennung seiner herausragenden Verdienste um das Werk Karl Amadeus Hartmanns, des bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Symphonikers des 20. Jahrhunderts und Gründers der musica viva-Konzertreihe, beschlossen die Mitglieder der Karl-Amadeus-Hartmann-Gesellschaft e. V. einstimmig, Maestro Kirill Petrenko die Ehrenmitgliedschaft der Karl Amadeus-Hartmann-Gesellschaft zu verleihen.
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Top classical news: Man robbed banks to get into music school http://bit.ly/1TOlYBp #ClassicalMusic
kulturport.de: Deutscher Orchesterwettbewerb 2016 – 4.500 Musizierende messen sich in Ulm #Kultur http://tinyurl.com/grajr6k
pizzicatomag: Repusic wird Schirmer-Nachfolger beim Münchner Rundfunkorchester http://bit.ly/1UM3kwr
Rosemary Siemens wasn’t sure if she’d ever see her signature violin again after it went missing last week. Photo: www.pembinavalleyonline.com