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Troubled arts venues get 14m rescue
More than 50 theatres, galleries and other arts organisations at “serious financial risk” have received emergency grants totalling £14m from Arts Council England over the past three years.
Classical Music Magazine
Garsington announces Philharmonia deal
The Philharmonia Orchestra will accompany one production a year, initially for five years from 2017, in new productions of late 19th- and 20th-century opera.
BBC News
Mandela opera cancelled after three shows
Producer Unathi Mtirara, Mandela’s grandnephew, told the Agence France Presse (AFP) news agency the show had run out of money to pay performers.
Classic FM
The Piano Guys transform One Direction with Saint-Saëns
Steven Sharp Nelson and Jon Schmidt have taken a break from performing at the Seven Wonders of the World to re-work a version of an unlikely pop track – One Direction’s ‘Story Of My Life’.
Ulrich Eckhardt hat 27 Jahre lang die Berliner Festspiele geleitet – und dann ein zweites Leben als Pianist, Organist und Galerist begonnen. Ein Besuch in Zehlendorf anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags.
Festivalguide: Von der Magie der Gezeiten-Konzerte
In Ostfriesland umarmt die Musik die Natur – und manchmal auch umgekehrt.
Klassik.com
Dokument von 1894/95 wird erstmals in New York präsentiert.
Epoch Times
Contrabass ‘Sings’ When Coaxed by Two Virtuosi
Despite the richness of the voice of the grandfather of stringed instruments, the contrabass or bass—an instrument that, in the right hands, tells its own story through great depth, color, and individuality—few bass players find much public recognition. However, two wonderful virtuosi should never be ignored again—American Joe Tamosaitis and Romanian Botond Kostyak.
Le Figaro
La « Leçon de piano » de Valentina Lisitsa
L’artiste consacre un album à Michael Nyman, compositeur de la BO du film de Jane Campion.
CBC Music @CBCclassical Classical violinists told they can’t take instruments on US Airways plane, make great video on the tarmac http://bit.ly/1gylK1r #classical
World Concert Hall @wconcerthall Today, #Bruch with @NickyBenedetti and #Mendelssohn‘s ‘Scottish’ from #Copenhagen http://ht.ly/xj90c #wch #classicalmusic
Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer “I’ve plundered the Baroque!” http://rarescale.org.uk/section745285_285131.html …
Susan Jones @SusanJonesArts #PayingArtists – @guardian http://www.theguardian.com/uk/culture holding steady in #mostpopular read #artists #goodpractice #artsfunding
The National Youth Theatre at the London Olympics
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