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The Times
LSO needs a new hall to lure Rattle
The London Symphony Orchestra’s illustrious conductor’s podium looks set to welcome a homecoming star in Sir Simon Rattle, although he may have a condition — a new concert hall.
ENO battles another backstage civil war
Our chief cultural writer on what to make of chairman Martyn Rose’s resignation and the leaked letter accusing his colleagues of mishandling the budget
The Strad
Boris Goldstein Violin Competition names second-round candidates
Fourteen violinists have made it through to the second round of the International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition Bern.
Classical Music Magazine
Parting shot from ENO chairman declares John Berry ‘the problem not the solution’
The outgoing chairman of English National Opera, Martyn Rose, has called ENO’s direction under artistic director John Berry ‘wholly unsustainable’ in a letter sent to Sir Vernon Ellis, ENO’s president.
BBC Music Magazine
Download the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1
The original manuscript for JS Bach’s Six Cello Suites is lost, making it difficult to know exactly when they were written.
Berliner Zeitung
Auf manchen von Amnon Weinsteins wurde in den Orchestern der Konzentrationslager gespielt.
pizzicato
Berufschoristen verärgert über Pariser Philharmonie
Weil die Pariser Philharmonie den Chor ihres residierenden ‘Orchestre de Paris’ als residierenden Chor auserwählt hat, protestieren die Pariser Berufschoristen, die sich in dem Kollektiv ‘Colère lyrique’ zusammen geschlossen haben, um ihrem Ärger besser Ausdruck zu verleihen.
Park schlägt zurück: Chung in Bedrängnis
Im Kampf zwischen dem Dirigenten Myung-Whun Chung und der am 29. Dezember zurückgetretenen Orchesterdirektorin des ‘Seoul Philharmonic’, Hyun-jung Park, war diese zwar offiziell unterlegen, aber sie hat mittlerweile ein Lauffeuer gegen den von ihr gehassten Chefdirigenten angefangen.
Klassik.com
Lösung in Streit um Kopien an Musikschulen
VG Musikedition schließt Vertrag mit dem Verband deutscher Musikschulen
The New York Times
Met Opera Cancels Premiere; Broadway Shows Canceled
The snowstorm forced the Metropolitan Opera to cancel one of the highlights of its season: Monday night’s planned premiere of a new production of a double bill of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta,” starring Anna Netrebko, and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.”
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The English National Opera. Photo: Donald Cooper/Photostage