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In today’s news, Classical Music Magazine reports that Søndergård has extended his contract with BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Music Director Nelsons wins a Grammy Award and Steven Stucky dies aged 66. Also, Huffpost Arts and Culture discusses whether technology can save Classical music
Baltic-course.com
Music Director Nelsons won Grammy Award
Music Director Andris Nelsons from Latvia and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s recording, Shostakovich Under Stalin’s Shadow – featuring Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 and the Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance tonight (February 15, 2016) at the 58th annual Grammy Awards, reports BC Bernadette Horgan, director of public relations at BSO
Classical Music Magazine
Søndergård extends contract with BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
Thomas Søndergård will continue as principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales for at least two more years
Classical-music.com
Leading American composer dies aged 66
Huffpost Arts & Cultural
Can Technology Save Classical Music?
By almost any metric, classical music is in trouble. A 2015 study by the National Endowment for the Arts titled “When Going Gets Tough,” found that attendance at arts events had steadily dropped over two decades.
NMZ
Viktor Schoner soll Stuttgarter Oper durch Sanierung führen
Ende des Jahres könnte feststehen, was die Sanierung und Erweiterung des Stuttgarter Opernhauses genau kosten wird
Musik-heute
Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden mit zwei Opern-Neuinszenierungen
Die Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden mit den Berliner Philharmonikern wollen im kommenden Jahr die Puccini-Oper “Tosca” auf die Bühne bringen
RBB-online
Bernauer Fans wollen Karajan in die Walhalla bringen
Stardirigent Herbert von Karajan, der über drei Jahrzehnte lang die Berliner Philharmoniker leitete, ist seit mehr als 20 Jahren tot
Le Figaro
Des orchestres qui marchent à la baguette
À l’Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio, le programme de musique orchestrale vaut bien celui de la Philharmonie de Paris
Guardian Classical @GdnClassical Opera’s new voices: 10 composers making overtures to greatness d.gu.com/KWNfq0
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