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Classical Music News -The Godfather, Stephen Sondheim, Porgy and Bess…

Thursday 17th November 2011

Every day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.

The Telegraph

Rambert Dance Company, Sadler’s Wells.

Javier De Frutos’s tribute to Tennessee Williams has a brutish kick to it, while Mark Baldwin’s tribute to childhood is too sugary for words, writes Mark Monahan.

The Telegraph

Ivan Hewett celebrates the great film composer Nino Rota, whose triumphs included The Godfather.

Ivan Hewett celebrates the great film composer Nino Rota, whose triumphs included The Godfather.

The New York Times

A Brief History of Opera

A summary of Opera through the ages.

The Guardian

Broadway’s Porgy and Bess drops new ending after Stephen Sondheim complains.

Stephen Sondheim writes to New York Times after Diane Paulus’s reframed version of 1935 opera suggested it needed a ‘happy ending’.

Gramophone

Beethoven Awareness Month

New York radio station WQXR pays tribute to the composer.