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In today’s classical music news, BBC announces presenters for The Great Orchestra Challenge, David Bowie musical to open in London this autumn & teenage tenor saves the day at Three Choirs Festival opening night. Also, musicians create art in aid of Youth Music.
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Teenage tenor saves the day at Three Choirs Festival opening night
18-year-old tenor Magnus Walker made his debut as a Three Choirs soloist in a performance of Elgar’s The Kingdom on the festival’s opening night. Currently a tenor choral scholar at Gloucester Cathedral, Walker stepped in at just a few hours’ notice when James Oxley lost his voice on the morning of the concert.
Musicians create art in aid of Youth Music
Paintings by leading musicians and bands are to be sold in aid of Youth Music and Children & the Arts. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Images of a Woman (1966), Eazl has invited musicians to create their own Images of… paintings.
BBC Music Magazine
Presenters for The Great Orchestra Challenge announced
The BBC has announced more details about its new series All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge, in which five amateur orchestras compete to be crowned Britain’s most inspirational amateur orchestra.
BBC News
David Bowie musical Lazarus to open in London
Lazarus, a new stage musical featuring the songs of David Bowie, is to open in London this autumn.
Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, the show premiered last November in New York Theatre Workshop – just a few weeks before Bowie’s death in January.
New Statesman
A renaissance of conductorless orchestras reveals the limits of traditional leadership
Moskow, 1922. In the bitterly cold first months of the year, word spreads among concert-goers of an innovative concert soon to be held in the Hall of Columns in the House of Trade Unions, in the Kremlin. The concept? A conductorless orchestra.
The Times Of India
Classical music contest encourages young talent
Nagpur: To discover new talent in classical vocal and instrumental music, South Central Cultural Zone has organized a competition for young musicians in age group of 18 to 35 years. The contest was started last year to coincide with Dr Vasantrao Deshpande Smriti Sangeet Samaroh and was limited to five states that the centre represents.
The Arts Desk
Prom 13: London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Jurowski
The last time I heard Beethoven’s setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy in the finale of his Ninth Symphony, it was as European anthem at the end of this May’s Europe Day Concert, and everybody gladly stood. That hopeful occasion was distinguished by Andrew Manze’s Rameauisation of the melody, stylishly played by Rachel Podger and the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
Le Figaro
À Verbier, dans la fabrique de virtuoses
Avec ses orchestres de jeunes, le festival valaisien est aussi un centre de formation. Dans son sillage, de plus en plus de manifestations confrontent les instrumentistes en herbe aux défis qui les attendent.
NRK
Nekter å fortelle hva Operaen tjente på rikingbryllup
Kulturdepartementet vil ikke offentliggjøre hvor mye Den Norske Opera & Ballett tok i leie for privat bryllupsfeiring. Opposisjonen reagerer på hemmeligholdet og vil stille statsråden til veggs.
nmz
Dirigent Haenchen: Bayreuther Orchestergraben eine Herausforderung
Nur wenige Tage hatte Dirigent Hartmut Haenchen Zeit, um sich nach dem überraschenden Rücktritt von Andris Nelsons in Bayreuth auf den «Parsifal» dort einzustellen. Dabei sei der Orchestergraben für sein Handwerk eine besondere Herausforderung.
klassik.com
Vergewaltigungs-Anklage gegen Professor der Münchner Musikhochschule
Die Münchner Staatsanwaltschaft hat einen momentan beurlaubten Professor der Münchner Musikhochschule angeklagt. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, eine mittlerweile 32-jährige Frau im Laufe einer mehrmonatigen Beziehung drei Mal vergewaltigt zu haben.
Klassik heute
50-jähriges Bühnenjubiläum von Franz Grundheber
Der Bariton Franz Grundheber feiert in der kommenden Spielzeit 2016/2017 sein 50-jähriges Bühnenjubiläum.
The Economist @TheEconomist Responding to catastrophe with classical music http://econ.st/29Zv6kI
Classic FM @ClassicFM Classical music’s biggest stars in the #FullWorksConcert, including Maxim Vengerov with the @OxfordPhil!
BBC Proms Team @bbcproms The exquisitely difficult classical music quiz from the Proms. Strictly no Googling allowed. http://bbc.in/29BSs0A
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