18th April: 16 year old boy wins Senior Menuhin Competition, UK once again world’s No.3 music market & Beyonce gives classical music lessons
Monday 18th April '16
Classical News In our news today, 16 year old boy wins Senior Menuhin Competition, UK is once again the world’s No.3 music market and Southbank Centre announces new board appointments. Also, 2016 BBC Proms sells Promming …
Read27th March: Karen Cargill remembers Maria Radner, value of cultural tourism to London supports case for concert hall and saving Gaza’s only grand piano
Friday 27th March '15
Classical News Guardian Maria Radner, my beloved friendFellow singer Karen Cargill remembers a colleague – lost in the Germanwings disaster – who became so much moreClassic FMAlison Balsom performs with the London Philharmonic OrchestraStar trumpeter Alison Balsom …
Read27th February: The musical and environmental mindfulness of John Luther Adams, classical music cannot turn a deaf ear to sexual abuse, and the Iranian and Israeli who make chamber music together
Friday 27th February '15
Classical News GuardianThe musical and environmental mindfulness of John Luther AdamsThe activist and composer is inspired by the natural processes he sees all around him – but refuses to let politics take charge of the musicThe …
Read5th November: One-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy to play Remembrance Day concerts, $100k prize for young classical musicians announced and Arts Council England must prioritise future spending outside M25.
Wednesday 5th November '14
Classical News IndependentPhilip Glass: From Glassworks to GlassfestWith his latest opera and a retrospective of his work travelling the country, the world's best known classical composer tells Jessica Duchen why he’s still touring and performing at …
Read6th May: Mozart manuscript up for auction, live stream linkup between UK opera houses & Michael Buble underpays Australian orchestra
Tuesday 6th May '14
Telegraph Mozart manuscript smuggled out of Nazi Germany expected to fetch £500,000 The family of a Jewish musician who smuggled a Mozart manuscript out of Nazi Germany are selling it at auction. Guardian Inside Opera: Live stream hopes to …
Read16th April: RPS Music Awards shortlist awards announced, John Luther Adams win Pulitzer Prize & Bergen Philharmonic’s future in threat
Wednesday 16th April '14
LimelightJohn Luther Adams wins Pulitzer Prize for MusicAlaskan-based composer John Luther Adams has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his recent commission from the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. BBC Music Magazine Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards shortlist …
ReadNeville Marriner discusses over-gesticulation, Opera is honoured at the 2014 Olivier Awards, and the A-Z of Richard Strauss
Tuesday 15th April '14
The GuardianNeville: 'My wife has told me to keep June free'How did a so-so violinist from Lincoln end up one of the world's greatest conductors? And will he ever slow down? As Neville Marriner hits …
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