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In today’s news Daniel Hope is named the new music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, aiding the orchestra’s expanding international presence. Katy Jones, executive producer for BBC Learning and head of the Ten Pieces project has died of a brain haemorrhage. Also, neuroscientist Jessica Grahn looks into how musicians remember extended passages of music after the Aurora orchestra announce the will perform at the BBC Proms from memory.
Guardian
The Proms’ problem isn’t the programming, it’s the lack of imagination
Critics of this year’s lineup bemoaning events such as the club music prom are missing the point. The BBC Proms is no longer about music; it’s about the Proms
Classic FM
The great conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has told Classic FM that the ‘fashion’ for instrumentalists to ‘play-conduct’ in order to spare a professional conductor’s fee is a ‘great shame’.
Classical Music Magazine
Ten Pieces executive producer dies aged 51
Katy Jones, executive producer for BBC Learning and head of the Ten Pieces project, has died aged 51 of a brain haemorrhage.
Classical Source
In a press conference in Zurich today, it was announced that celebrated violinist Daniel Hope has been named the new Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
BBC News
How do you memorise an entire symphony?
In a feat of musical memory, the Aurora Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony without printed scores at the BBC Proms 2015. Neuroscientist Jessica Grahn explores how musicians manage to remember highly complex arrangements.
Der Tagesspiegel
Simon Rattle stellt Spielzeit 2015/16 vor
Frankreich, Tristan, Peter Sellars: Die Berliner Philharmoniker haben ihr Programm für die Saison 2015/16 vorgestellt – und halten sich alle Optionen für den neuen Chefdirigenten offen.
Die Welt
Auf der Bühne sind wir Deutschen Weltmeister
Das deutsche Theater, hierzulande oft totgesagt und kaputtgespart, wird im Ausland beneidet um Regisseure und Schauspieler. Frank Castorf oder Thomas Ostermeier sind global berühmter als Bushido.
crescendo
Daniel Hope wird Music Director des Zürcher Kammerorchesters
In Zürich wurde heute die Ernennung von Daniel Hope als Music Director des Zürcher Kammerorchesters (ZKO) mit Beginn der Saison 2016/17 bekannt gegeben. Damit tritt Hope die Nachfolge von Sir Roger Norrington an.
Presseportal
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (59) wird auch weiterhin für den guten Ton des WDR Sinfonieorchesters sorgen.
Los Angeles Times
Monteverdi’s ‘L’Orfeo,’ the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age
The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars in Florence, Italy, who sought authentic reenactment of ancient Greek theater.
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Executive producer of BBC Learning and head of the Ten Pieces project Katy Jones.