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In today’s news, Gramophone asks ‘The Shostakovich Question’, and The Guardian reveal 10 pieces that will give you nightmares. Also, Sinfini Music analyse music’s relationship with the brain, and The Telegraph analyse the effects of Richter’s ‘Sleep’
Gramophone
An isolated figure, working under one of the 20th century’s most terrifying dictatorships, his music is emotional, controversial, misunderstood – and a guaranteed hall-filler. David Fanning asks: why are we obsessed with Shostakovich?
The Guardian
Music to give you nightmares – 10 of the best
Radio 3 are broadcasting Max Richter’s eight-hour lullaby Sleep on Saturday night, live from the Wellcome Collection. Here, by contrast, are 10 works that certainly won’t give you sweet dreams
Sinfini Music
If you’ve ever wondered exactly how it is that classical music can engage your senses, change your mood or even send a delicious tingle up your spine, then this weekend may give you the opportunity to find out
Classical Source
Welsh National Opera Announces New Music Director and New Conductor Laureate
Welsh National Opera announced their new Music Director today as Czech conductor Tomáš Hanus who will take up the position from autumn 2016
The Guardian
Wanted: eccentric singer of dead languages to produce uncategorisable music
Asked if she fancied making ‘extreme early music’, Stef Conner couldn’t resist. Little did she realise how extreme. She explains how she has breathed life into a 4,000-year-old language
The Telegraph
Can Radio 3’s eight-hour lullaby soothe our frazzled brains?
Max Richter’s new project, unambiguously titled Sleep, which will be broadcast for the first time on Radio 3 tomorrow
The New York Times
For the Philharmonic’s Opening Night, a New Name and a Big Gift
The opening of the New York Philharmonic’s 174th season on Thursday felt like the start of a new chapter, as the orchestra played for the first time in the newly rechristened David Geffen Hall and announced that it was getting the largest individual donation in its history
Crescendo
Expertenjury nominiert 21 Bewerber für die Europäischen Kulturmarken-Awards 2015
Die Shortlist der Kulturmarken-Awards 2015 steht. Unter dem Vorsitz von Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheytt, Präsident der Kulturpolitischen Gesellschaft e.V., wählte am 22. September eine 29-köpfige Expertenjury aus Kultur, Wirtschaft und Medien, bei der auch crescendo durch den Herausgeber Winfried Hanuschik vertreten ist, 21 Nominierte aus
Pizzicato
Musik ohne Harmonie: Streit in Luxemburger Dachverband UGDA
Vier von elf Vorstandmitgliedern der UGDA, dem Dachverband der Musikvereine in Luxemburg, haben gestern, einer Meldung von ‘Radio 100,7′ zufolge, ihr Amt niedergelegt
Klassik.com
Unternehmer spendet Millionen für Kirchenorgel
Der Unternehmer Günther Weber will der Stadt Neubrandenburg zum Bau einer neuen Konzertorgel eine Spende in Millionenhöhe zukommen lassen . Die Planung und der Bau der Orgel mit voraussichtlich 70 Registern wird Schätzungen zufolge zwei Millionen Euro kosten
Le Figaro.fr
Appel aux dons : les orgues parisiens sont en danger
Sur ces 234 instruments à vent que compte la ville de Paris, une immense partie d’entre eux sont en mauvais état et nécessitent une restauration. Certains diocèses sont aujourd’hui à la recherche de mécènes
El Mundo
La investigación contra Apple Music pasa de Europa a a Estados Unidos
Nueva York y Connecticut investigan si la compañía presiona a los productores para que dejen de proveer música a sus competidores
BBC Music Magazine @MusicMagazine : Would you like to appear in BBC Music Magazine, simply by telling us about your favourite music? Here’s how you can… http://www.classical-music.com/tell-us-about-music-you-have-been-listening …
BBC Radio 3 @BBCRadio3 : What was the first music composed to fit the two sides of an LP? @FourTet has the answer: http://bbc.in/1La9Bi2
Sinfini Music @SinfiniMusic : Who knew Hans Zimmer wasn’t so good with the whole music-reading thing…?! Fascinating interview by @dfordalrymple http://bit.ly/1YEXsWo
Wake up, it’s Wagner … Max Richter/The Guardian