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Classic FM celebrates Bond music with Hollywood composers
The music of James Bond will be celebrated by Classic FM in a two-hour special broadcast featuring interviews with Bond composers David Arnold and Thomas Newman.
New Zealand MP to become opera singer
Dr Lockwood Smith, MP and Speaker of the House of Representatives in New Zealand, is to perform alongside the New Zealand Pops Orchestra later this month.
The Evening Standard
ENO’s Don Giovanni condom advert hits low note
English National Opera is under fire after using a provocative double entendre to promote its new production of Don Giovanni.
The Arts Desk
War and Peace: Russian National Orchestra, LPO, Jurowski, Royal Festival Hall
Hybrid orchestra of Russian and British players pulls Shostakovich’s sprawling Leningrad Symphony together
Deceptive Cadence, NPR
The MacArthur ‘Genius’ Bow Maker Who Makes Violins Sing
Among the 23 recipients of the MacArthur “genius” grants this past week: an economist, a mathematician, a photographer, a neuroscientist, and a Boston-based stringed instrument bow maker.
The Independent
With women in the classical world ignored or treated as objects, Jessica Duchen says it’s time for a new prize solely for them
Leona Lewis, the chart-topping pop star who wants to give it all up to sing opera
Simon Cowell’s biggest ‘X Factor’ success tells Adam Sherwin that despite 20 million record sales she’s still not satisfied
Deceptive Cadence, NPR