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Composer threatens to withdraw tax after latest opera rejected
Michael Nyman, who has worked as a film composer for 30 years, complained he had proposed to stage a work in Covent Garden but had been rejected.
Classical Music Magazine
RPS Awards announced, with Abbado and Pollini winning
Two Italians in London, Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini have won major awards at the Royal Philharmonic Society awards held at the Dorchester Hotel in London on 8th May.
Sound and Music appoints new chief executive
Susanna Eastburn, currently music director at Arts Council England, is to be the new chief executive of Sound and Music.
LA Times
L.A. Philharmonic extends jazz contract with Herbie Hancock
The L.A. jazz scene will continue to be led by a legend as the L.A. Philharmonic announced a one-year extension to Herbie Hancock’s contract as the Creative Chair for Jazz.
The New York Times
Don’t sing with your mouth full
Opera, of all the art forms, is singularly associated with food, whether because of the appetites of well-girthed singers or the sensual pleasures celebrated in its rich ragout of music, emotion and stagecraft.
Financial Times
Conductor Stephen Barlow talks about his musical career and his new challenge of putting the Buxton Festival on the map.
Gramophone
Yo-Yo Ma and Paul Simon named 2012 Polar Music Price laureates
This year’s Polar Music Prize has been awarded to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Each laureate receives one million Swedish krona and will be presented with his prize by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Evening Standard
Bookings opens on Saturday for the classical music extravaganza of the year – from Barenboim on the podium to a stage full of 600 singers.
The Guardian
Riccardo Muti to conduct Vatican concert in front of Pope Benedikt XVI
Italian maestro will lead Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera orchestra in playing Vivaldi and Verdi to mark pope’s seventh anniversary.
