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In today’s news, The Spectator argues that female composers have been left off the syllabus because they’re no good, and the Evening Standard lists classical music’s most influential Londoners in 2015. Also, The Strad reports on how harmonics can be used as a violin teaching tool
The Spectator
The reason why there are no female composers on the syllabus is because they’re no good
Nothing by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Ethel Smyth or Judith Weir matches up to the work of their male counterparts
The Guardian
Marriage of Figaro – have you lost the plot?
Do you too struggle to follow every twist and turn of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro? Help us get things clear, for once and for all
The Strad
Using harmonics as a violin teaching and practice tool
Although harmonics are most often used for musical effect, in the search for a perfectly pure sound they can be a wonderful aid to learning and practice, argues Laura Reed
Evening Standard
The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2015 – Classical Music
Classical music’s most influential Londoners and what they have done for the Arts
Manchester Evening News
Hacienda classics turned classical as DJs perform dance hits with Manchester Camerata
Former Hacienda DJs Graeme Park and Mike Pickering came up with the idea to play a non-stop set of 20 songs with the local chamber orchestra to give the club’s anthems a new life
New York Times
The Met Considers Naming Rights, and Other Ways Forward
A bigger glass lobby stretching into Lincoln Center’s plaza. Operas on Sunday. And perhaps, following the lead of its neighboring theaters recently renamed for David Geffen and David H. Koch, slapping another wealthy donor’s name on the storied Metropolitan Opera House.
Listen Magazine
Itzhak Perlman discusses teaching, Mendelssohn, color, chamber music, warhorses, interpretation, solo Bach, and his hair.
Neue Musikzeitung
Gergijew gibt Einstand in München – Aufbruch in eine neue Ära?
Mit dem Einstandkonzert des russischen Stardirigenten Waleri Gergijew beginnt für die Münchner Philharmoniker an diesem Donnerstag eine neue Zeitrechnung.
Klassik-heute.com
ARD-Musikwettbewerb geht mit dem 3. Preisträgerkonzert zu Ende
Die 64. Ausgabe des Internationalen Musikwettbewerbs der ARD ist erfolgreich zu Ende gegangen und hat in allen vier Kategorien ausgezeichnete Ergebnisse hervorgebracht.
Klassik.com
Neues Kulturzentrum in Lugano eröffnet
Theater- und Konzertsaal bieten Raum für musikalisches Angebot unterschiedlicher Sparten. Entworfen hat das Gebäude der Tessiner Architekt Ivan Gianola.
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Music Director of English National Opera: Mark Wigglesworth Daniel Hambury/ Evening Standard