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In our news today, the Estonian Olympic Committee appoints Kristjan Järvi as first non-sport Olympic ambassador, Gramophone Classical Music Awards reveals 2017 category winners, and experimental music festival takes over Darwin military tunnel. Also, Samsung is shutting down its music streaming service.
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Kristjan Järvi appointed as Estonia’s first non-sport Olympic ambassador
The Estonian Olympic Committee has appointed Kristjan Järvi as ambassador in a bid to use music to inspire the country to future sporting success. The conductor is the first non-athlete to hold a senior position as a standing member.
Gramophone Award category winners announced
The category winners for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017 have been revealed. The awards will be presented and the recipients of the special awards named at the London ceremony on 15 September.
The Guardian
Shakespeare’s magical music box: the sound of rapture at the Globe
Exquisite harmonies, by candlelight, transported audiences in 1600s London out of filthy streets into a gilded world of kings and star-cross’d lovers. Composer-director Claire van Kampen explains why music was key to the Bard’s success.
‘What a way to do a concert’: experimental music festival takes over Darwin military tunnel
Tunnel Number Five show a BYO affair, with 100 people dragging camping chairs and drinks through the low, pipe-lined entrance.
Business Insider Deutschland
Samsung is shutting down its music streaming service
Samsung is surrendering in the music streaming wars. The company is closing down its Milk Music streaming service, it has announced.
Broadwayworld
Mark Morris Dance Group Presents MOZART DANCES, 8/24-27
Ten years ago, on the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Lincoln Center commissioned Mark Morris’s Mozart Dances. Hailed as a masterpiece and “one of Mr. Morris’s grandest achievements”, Mozart Dances offers a visually stimulating, elegant, and often tender display of movement and technique.
NRK
Vil løfte musikkbransjen med ny teknologi
Norge er langt dårligere enn våre naboland når det gjelder omsetningen innen kreative næringer. Det vil kulturminister Linda Hofstad Helleland gjøre noe med.
Musik heute
Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz in sein Amt eingeführt
Der Sänger und Dirigent Gotthold Schwarz ist am Samstag als neuer Thomaskantor in sein Amt eingeführt worden. Der 64-Jährige ist der 17. künstlerische Leiter des Thomanerchores nach Johann Sebastian Bach.
Klassik heute
Hans-Christoph Rademann formiert Ensembles der Bachakademie neu
Hans-Christoph Rademann schlägt zu Beginn der Saison 2016/17 bei der Internationalen Bachakademie Stuttgart den Weg in Richtung historisch informierte Aufführungspraxis ein.
klassik.com
Sopranistin Daniela Dessi gestorben
Die Sängerin Daniela Dessi ist tot. Sie starb im Alter von 59 Jahren nach kurzer, schwerer Krankheit an ihrem Wohnsitz in Brescia.
BBC Radio 3 @BBCRadio3 Drinking alone with the moon – the Chinese poetry behind Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde http://bbc.in/2biCGLi
klassik.com @klassikcom Appenzeller Bachtage mit erfolgreicher Bilanz #Musikfestival #JSBach #Klassik http://klassik.com/?4R554
nmz @musikzeitung Meine Sicht: Das wichtigste Instrument beim #Musical? Raschelnde Banknoten: Angeblich gilt… http://goo.gl/fb/cMz5j5
‘Haunting’: violinist Netanela Mizrahi performs at the underground Tunnel Number Five experimental music festival in Darwin. Photograph: Helen Davidson for the Guardian