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IMG Artists To Launch TV Scouting Of Classical Music Talents In China
IMG Artists will join hands with China Arts and Entertainment Group to expand its business in China and bring Chinese performing arts programs abroad. The joint venture will be an investment of several hundred million dollars and aims to introduce a wide array of Chinese programs with an emphasis on classical music and dance artists.
Guardian
Vladimir Putin to purchase Sergei Rachmaninoff’s archive and estate?
Pianist Denis Matsuev claims that the Russian president has shown interest in Rachmaninov’s Swiss villa, which holds much of the late composer’s manuscripts and mementos.
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Alexis Smith and Joe Henson on composing for video games
Music can completely alter the way a player experiences a video game. The composers behind the latest instalment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Alexis Smith and Joe Henson, explain their process and tell us why it’s an exciting time to be in the industry.
Chicago Classical Review
Tilson Thomas throws out the first lozenge at bronchial CSO concert
A Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance of Mahler 9 was so plagued with audience coughing that conductor Tilson Thomas went offstage & emerged with handfuls of lozenges which he threw into the audience.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Acclaimed Australian theatre and opera director Elke Neidhardt dies aged 72
One of Australia’s most noted opera and theatre directors, Elke Neidhardt, has died at the age of 72.
Telegraph
No-one works harder than the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Given the cuts to arts funding, esteemed organizations such as the RPO must now explore new money-making avenues, says Rupert Christiansen.
Classic FM Online
David Bowie’s Peter and the Wolf to be reissued
A recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf featuring David Bowie as narrator is being re-released by Sony Classical in time for Christmas.
Die Zeit
Mehr Klebeband ins Klavier!
Diese verrückten Deutschen. In Amsterdam gaben der Techno-DJ Henrik Schwarz und der Klavierdompteur Hauschka ein erstes gemeinsames Konzert. Ganz erstaunlich.
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