BACKLondon Music Masters surpasses The Big Give Christmas Challenge Target
The music education charity joined the Big Give campaign, which matches any money raised by selected UK Charities, and exceeded its target of £27,500 to raise £30,994.
London Music Masters champions the life-changing effects of learning a musical instrument.
The music education charity teaches entire classes of inner-city primary school children to play the violin or cello and has welcomed nearly 2500 children and their families since it was founded in 2008.
London Music Masters has continued its work alongside its ambassadors, including violinist Nicola Benedetti, and has conceived and designed Britain’s first accredited qualification for group instrumental learning.
Leipziger Klimaschutz: Bachfest will mit Mischwaldpflanzung ökologischen Fußabdruck verringern
Während in Madrid die Weltklimakonferenz stattfindet, denken auch Klassikveranstalter über die CO2-Emissionen ihrer Festivals nach. Das Leipziger Bachfest will mit einem Waldvermehrungsprojekt punkten.
Das Leipziger Bachfest will seine CO2-Bilanz aufbessern. Ab dem kommenden Jahr solle dazu die Pflanzung eines neuen Mischwaldes am Rand eines ehemaligen Braunkohle-Tagebaus im Süden Leipzigs unterstützt werden, teilte das Bach-Archiv am Dienstag, 10. Dezember, in Leipzig mit. Daran sollen auch Besucher, Künstler und Partner des Festivals beteiligt sein. Der Mischwald soll später einmal den Namen Johann Sebastian Bachs tragen. Weitere Details zu dem Vorhaben will die Festivalleitung in der kommenden Woche präsentieren.
Das Bachfest sei auf Wachstumskurs und so international wie kaum ein anderes Festival, erklärten die Veranstalter. Zum diesjährigen Bachfest seien fast 40 Prozent der Gäste aus dem Ausland angereist, jeder zweite von ihnen mit dem Flugzeug. Im kommenden Jahr werde das Festival, zu dem 40 Bach-Chöre aus sechs Kontinenten eingeladen sind, aller Voraussicht nach noch internationaler. “So schön und hochemotional dieses Festival wird, die CO2-Bilanz ist problematisch”, erklärten die Macher.
Leipzig climate protection: Bachfest wants to reduce ecological footprint with mixed forest planting
While the world climate conference is taking place in Madrid, classical music organisers are also thinking about the CO2 emissions of their festivals. The Leipzig Bach Festival wants to score points with a forest propagation project.
The Leipzig Bach Festival wants to improve its CO2 balance. Starting next year, the planting of a new mixed forest on the edge of a former lignite open-cast mine in the south of Leipzig will be supported, the Bach Archive announced in Leipzig on Tuesday, 10 December. Visitors, artists and partners of the festival will also be involved. The mixed forest will later bear the name of Johann Sebastian Bach. Further details on the project will be presented by the festival management next week.
The Bach Festival is on a growth course and as international as hardly any other festival, the organizers explained. For this year’s Bach Festival, almost 40 percent of the guests had travelled from abroad, one in two of them by plane. Next year, the festival, to which 40 Bach choirs from six continents have been invited, is likely to become even more international. “As beautiful and highly emotional as this festival will be, the CO2 balance is problematic,” the organizers explained.
Terence Blanchard, 1er compositeur afro-américain au Met de New York
Le trompettiste de jazz américain réagit à l’annonce par les responsables du temple de la musique new-yorkaise de la programmation lors de la saison 2021-2022 de son opéra « Fire shut up in my bones ». Ce sera la première fois, depuis sa création il y a 136 ans, que le MET de New York proposera l’opéra d’un compositeur afro-américain. « Cette annonce dépasse ma personne et en dit plus long sur ce qu’il se passe dans notre pays, et dans le monde de l’art. J’ai le sentiment que cela va être quelque chose d’historique, et pas parce que c’est moi » a confié le musicien de 57 ans, récompensé 11 fois aux Grammy Awards et nommé aux Oscars. Trompettiste renommé, compositeur de nombreuses bandes originales du cinéaste Spike Lee, Terence Blanchard, qui vient de recevoir à Washington un prix pour son oeuvre, au Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Competition & Gala avoue avoir ressenti un « mélange d’émotions » lorsque l’annonce de cet opéra a été rendue publique.
Terence Blanchard, 1st African-American composer at the Met in New York
The American jazz trumpeter reacts to the announcement by the New York Music Temple of the programming for the 2021-2022 season of his opera “Fire shut up in my bones”. This will be the first time in its 136-year history that the New York MET will feature the opera of an African-American composer. “This announcement is beyond me and says more about what is happening in our country, and in the art world. I have a feeling it’s going to be something historical, not because it’s me,” said the 57-year-old musician, who has won 11 Grammy Awards and Oscar nominations. A renowned trumpeter and composer of many soundtracks by filmmaker Spike Lee, Terence Blanchard, who has just received an award in Washington for his work, at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Competition & Gala admits that he felt a “mixture of emotions” when the announcement of this opera was made public.