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Guardian
Facing the music: Tansy Davies
From Monteverdi to Ligeti, via Prince, Carla Bley and Stockhausen – the composer whose Re-greening is premiered this week by the NYO – reveals her musical passions
Greenpeace performs Arctic requiem in effort to touch hearts over Shell drilling
Activists hand workers copies of the music and encourage them to help the oil company ‘avert disaster’ on plans to drill for oil under ice cap
Classical Music Magazine
Violinist wins appeal against border fine
Violinist Yosuke Kawasaki is to have more than CA$100k (£48,895) returned to him after winning an appeal against the Canada Border Services Agency.
ONL marks 40th anniversary with RAVENNA
The Orchestre National de Lille (ONL) used a full RAVENNA digital networking setup for its 40th anniversary concert: the first time that the technology had been used at a live event of this scale.
BBC News
Music in the operating room off-putting, study suggests
Playing music in the operating theatre can be disruptive and surgeons should think twice about pressing the play button, according to a small study.
Der Tagesspiegel
Am Donnerstag beginnt Young Euro Classic. Spezialität des Berliner Jugendorchesterfestivals sind multinationale Ensembles – so auch das neu gegründete Friedensorchester.
klassik.com
Nach 33.000 im Vorjahr wurden insgesamt 30.000 Eintrittskarten verkauft
Verbier Festival mit leichtem Besucherrückgang
Das Orchester
Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden bekommt neuen Intendant
Der Schweizer Peter Theiler wird Intendant der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden
El País
El piano asiático impone su ley
Dos japoneses, dos coreanos, un chico y un español esperan ganar el Concurso Paloma O’Shea, cuyo veredicto se anuncia hoy en Santander
The New York Times
An old songbook could put ‚Happy Birthday‘ in the public domain
Yet ‚Happy Birthday to you‘, far from being as free as a piece of cake at a party, is actually considered private property.
Classic FM @ClassicFM: This is what Mozart’s own violin actually sounds like: http://classfm.co/gyndsf
The Royal Opera @TheRoyalOpera: ‘Don’t expect harmonies…’ @GeorgFHaas previews his new avant-garde opera #ROHmorgen: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-georg-friedrich-haas-on-morgen-und-abend-dont-expect-harmonies … ^C
Sinfini Music @SinfiniMusic: ‘In many ways, Hildegard von Bingen was the first feminist icon.’ @BBC6Music‘s @maryannehobbs picks her #PiecesOfMe: http://bit.ly/1DkiSks