BACKIn today’s news: The Israeli conductor Noam Sheriff passed away. The Berlin Initiative for new music holds a concert for the homeless. A great concern has been raised over the decline in music uptake at GCSE. George Walker, who was a trailblazer in Music and a Pulitzer Price winner has passed away. And one more piece on Leonard Bernstein and what we can learn from him.
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90 music leaders express concern over GCSE music decline
90 leading figures from the music industry, including Sir Simon Rattle, Tasmin Little, Julian Lloyd Webber, Nicola Benedetti and Alison Balsom, have signed a letter to The Times expressing their concern over the rapid decline in music uptake at GCSE.
Grammophone
Bartoli’s new label to champion next generation
The mezzo Cecilia Bartoli is marking 30 years on the Decca label with the launch of a new sub-label aimed at nurturing the next generation of stars.
The Guardian
Learning from Leonard Bernstein: our cheeky Proms love letter to a musical pioneer
Bernstein wasn’t only a maverick maestro – he brought classical music to a whole new generation with his Young People’s concerts. But have they stood the test of time?
Capital Public Radio
George Walker, Trailblazing American Composer, Dies At 96
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist and educator George Walker has died at the age of 96. Walker’s death was announced to NPR by one of his family members, Karen Schaefer, who said he died Thursday at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J. after a fall.
Tagesspiegel
Israelischer Komponist Noam Sheriff gestorben
Der einflussreiche israelische Komponist und Dirigent Noam Sheriff ist tot. Der 1935 geborene Musiker hatte sein Debüt als 22-Jähriger mit der Premiere seines Werks „Festival Prelude“, das Leonard Bernstein 1957 mit dem Israelischen Philharmonieorchester in Tel Aviv aufführte.
Nmz
„,Atonale‘ Musik für alle“ – Musikalische Aktion in Berlin, paradox
Im Prinzip ist die Sache ganz einfach. Vor einiger Zeit kündigte die Deutsche Bahn an, mittels Musikeinsatzes für einen geräumten Platz an der S-Bahn-Station Hermannstraße in Berlin sorgen zu wollen.
Klassik.com
Sopranistin Inge Borkh verstorben
Borkh wurde am 26. Mai 1921 in Mannheim als Ingeborg Simon geboren, wuchs jedoch aufgrund der jüdischen Herkunft der Familie in Österreich und der Schweiz auf.
El Mundo
Necesitamos escuchar casetes y vinilos (aunque Albert Rivera diga que están obsoletos)
El presidente de Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera, dijo hace unos días que el debate sobre exhumar a Franco era algo tan “obsoleto” como escuchar música en “casetes y vinilos”.
La Vanguardia
Katharina Wagner dirigirá un ‘Lohengrin’ en el Liceu
Katharina Wagner, la biznieta del compositor y actual directora artística del Festival de Bayreuth, dirigirá la puesta en escena de una nueva producción de Lohengrin en el Liceu.
Contains possibly the first ever football chant! By Elgar!
7 unexpected times that classical music and sport collided:https://t.co/7oSMSPj0ly— BBC Radio 3 (@BBCRadio3) 27. August 2018
Leonard Bernstein with young students at a Young People’s Concert in 1965 Photograph: Alamy