BACKIn today’s news: Music helps children through tough times, Jessica Dandy wins Bach Singers Prize, Refugee ensemble gets standing ovations and 5 music start-up to watch. Also German city Bonn honours Beethoven and Christoph Eschenbach is the new chief conductor of Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
Financial Times
Arts therapy: listening helps children tune into their potential
From Kabul to Hackney, music lessons help the young through tough times.
UNHCR
Refugee orchestra wins standing ovation
An eight-strong ensemble of performers from five countries performed at the Besançon Music Festival in France.
Music Teacher
Today’s children more musical than parents, research shows
Today’s secondary school children are more likely to be able to play a musical instrument than their parents or grandparents, according to a study by Town Hall Symphony Hall (THSH), Birmingham.
Early Music Today
Jessica Dandy wins LBS Bach Singers Prize
Contralto Jessica Dandy has won the sixth London Bach Society (LBS) Bach Singers Prize.
Opera Now
Richard Gaddes receives honorary fellowship from Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban has presented an honorary fellowship to alumnus Richard Gaddes, in recognition of his 50-year career in opera in the USA.
IQ
Unlocking blockchain: 5 music start-ups to watch
Tickets Cloud founder Katerina Kirillova highlights some of the companies hoping to revolutionize the music business using blockchain technology.
The New York Times
Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival
When Jane Moss arrived at Lincoln Center 25 years ago to shake up it’s programming, many people thought that the days of its well-loved but staid Mostly Mozart festival were numbered.
The Washington Post
The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian
It was an unusual event from the outset: a privately funded reception and concert of music by Russian and American composers, all based on an ambiguous premise.
Pizzicato
France plans merger of Orchestre de Paris and Philharmonie
The French Ministry of culture plans the merger of the Orchestra de Paris and the Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris, France Musique has revealed.
San Francisco Classical Voice
Hewlett Foundation Announces First Winners of 50 Arts Commissions Initiative
The Hewlett Foundation dropped a money bomb on the Bay Area arts scene today, announcing the first 10 recipients of the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions initiative.
Chicago Tribune
Opera ‘As One’ sings a timely tale of being transgender in America
At a time when transgender issues are turning up more often in the national conversation, a recent opera about the journey to self-acceptance of a young trans protagonist is all the more topical than it must have seemed at its premiere three years ago.
Tagesspiegel
Vom Wunderkind zum Bühnenstar: Der Pianist und Dirigent Daniel Barenboim hat musikalisch wie kulturpolitisch eine glückliche Hand. Heute wird er 75 Jahre alt.
Klassik.com
Musikpreis des Kantons Bern für Meret Lüthi und Ernesto Molinari
Die Violinistin und Gründerin des Alte-Musik-Ensembles “Les Passions de l’âme” Meret Lüthi sowie der Klarinettist Ernesto Molinari sind mit dem diesjährigen Musikpreis des Kantons Bern ausgezeichnet worden.
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Bonn entdeckt Beethoven doch noch für sich
Lange hat sich Bonn wenig um den berühmtesten Sohn der Stadt gekümmert. Mit den Feiern zum 250. Geburtstag des Komponisten soll sich das ändern: Ludwig van Beethoven soll zum Aushängeschild der Stadt werden.
Codex Flores
Eschenbach wird Chefdirigent des Konzerthausorchesters Berlin
Christoph Eschenbach, der in den 1980er-Jahren auch das Zürcher Tonhalle-Orchester geleitet hat, wird ab der Saison 2019/20 für vorerst drei Jahre Nachfolger von Iván Fischer an der Spitze des Konzerthausorchesters Berlin.
France musique
Réforme du ministère de la Culture : des propositions chocs pour la musique
Intégration de l’Orchestre de Paris au sein de la Philharmonie, fin des régimes spéciaux à l’Opéra national de Paris… France Musique révèle les mesures du document du ministère de la Culture qui concernent le monde musical.
