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In today’s news the BBC have announced the extension of their Ten Pieces project to secondary schools, however Ivan Hewett comments that we shouldn’t dumb down music for teenagers and lists his alternative pieces. Pianist James Rhodes has won the right to publish his autobiography after a lengthy legal battle to get the injunction lifted. Also, Harmonia Mundi is set to be sold to the Belgian independent recording group PIAS.
Guardian
BBC’s Ten Pieces extends classical music programme to teenagers
Nationwide scheme will play Wagner and Verdi in secondary school halls and classrooms to encourage pupils to embrace classical music
Pianist James Rhodes wins right to publish autobiography telling of abuse
Rights groups hail supreme court decision to lift injunction barring publication of book in which concert musician discusses being repeatedly raped as a child
Telegraph
Don’t dumb down classical music for teenagers
The BBC’s list of classical music pieces for teenagers is patronising. Ivan Hewett recommends some alternatives
The Times
Opera Holland Park, the down-to-earth company taking on Glyndebourne
It is a warm sunny day in Kensington, the sort of day that James Clutton and Michael Volpe, the producer and general manager of Opera Holland Park, will want when their season opens on June 2.
Classical Music Magazine
Harmonia Mundi set to be sold to Belgian independent PIAS
The Belgium-based independent recording group PIAS (Play It Again Sam) is poised to buy struggling French classical company Harmonia Mundi.
Die Welt
Die Plebejer von Bonn proben den Aufstand
Nur die Berliner Philharmoniker dürfen ihren neuen Chef selbst wählen. Das konnten sie nicht. Bonns Beethoven-Orchester weiß, wen es will. Das aber ist den Politikern egal. Misstöne sind programmiert.
pizzicato
Erhöhte Gagen der Bühnenkünstler und Orchestermusiker in Deutschland
Nach den rezenten Warnstreiks haben sich der Deutsche Bühnenverein als Arbeitgeberverband der Theater und Orchester und die Künstlergewerkschaften heute in Köln auf Gagenerhöhungen für die künstlerischen Mitarbeiter der Stadttheater, Staatstheater und Landesbühnen sowie für die Musiker der Orchester verständigt.
New Instrument: The Celloridoo
By designing a new musical instrument, an Iranian designer won Bronze prize at the A’Design Awards 2015, the World’s largest design competition. Aidin Ardjomandi’s new instrument Celloridoo is a composite one, combining a chordophone which is a bowed stringed instrument and an aerophone which is inspired from Didgeridoo, an Australian wind instrument.
MUSIK HEUTE
Cambreling bis 2018 Stuttgarter Generalmusikdirektor
Sylvain Cambreling bleibt bis 2018 Generalmusikdirektor der Oper Stuttgart. Der 66-Jährige habe seinen Vertrag entsprechend verlängert, teilte das Haus am Mittwoch mit.
Le Figaro
La Philharmonie de Paris atteint le demi-million de visiteurs
Malgré les polémiques autour du retard, du coût des travaux et de l’ouverture prématurée, la nouvelle grande salle de concerts a déjà accueilli 500.000 personnes en cinq mois.
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Pianist James Rhodes wins right to publish autobiography telling of abuse