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28th November: Injured violinist spent 10 years playing music in her head, Dartington announces first programme under Joanna MacGregor’s leadership and The Really Big Chorus to usher in the festive season with double Messiah.

Friday 28th November 2014

Classical News

Guardian

Songs of exiles: rescuing ‘degenerate music’ from the shadows

The Nazi campaign against so-called ‘degenerate music’, saw works by such composers as Weill, Schoenberg and Hindemith denounced and suppressed. More than 70 years later, much of this music is still unknown. Baritone Peter Brathwaite on his mission to bring it to a new audience.

Telegraph

Injured violinist spent 10 years playing music in her head

The virtuoso Kyung Wha-Chung, who lost the use of her finger in 2005, will play her first London concert in a decade at the Royal Festival Hall in December

Classical Music Magazine

Dartington announces first programme under Joanna MacGregor’s leadership

Dartington International Summer School has announced the fullprogramme of events and classes for its 2015 season, which runs from 1 to 29 August. It will be the first edition of the annual summer school to be overseen by new artistic director Joanna MacGregor.

BBC Music Magazine

The Really Big Chorus to usher in the festive season with double Messiah

4,000 singers will mark The Really Big Chorus’s 40th anniversary

The Strad

Amsterdam’s Dudok Quartet wins Kersjes Prize 2014, worth €50,000

The group was praised by the jury for its ‘intense, impassioned playing’

Pizzicato

Fusion von Staatsmusiktheater und Moskauer Philharmonikern

Das nationale russische Staatsmusiktheater, das ehemalige Theater Vladimir Nazarov, soll gegen den Widerstand der Theaterleitung und des Personals mit den Moskauer Philharmonikern fusioniert werden.

Klassik.com

Mammutprojekt zum 250. Beethoven-Geburtstag

Die Bonner Pianistin Susanne Kessel hat Komponisten aus aller Welt dazu aufgerufen, insgesamt 250 Klavierstücke mit Bezug zu Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) zu komponieren.

Musik Heute

Essener Philharmoniker erweitern Besuche in JeKi-Grundschulen

Instrumentalisten der Essener Philharmoniker erweitern ihre Besuche in Grundschulen der Stadt.

Codex Flores

Der Ursprung musikalischer Hörfähigkeiten

In einer drei Jahre dauernden Studie ist ein Team der Basler Hochschule für Musik der Frage nachgegangen, ob die speziellen musikalischen Hörfähigkeiten von Musikern Resultat von Veranlagung oder von Training (oder eines Zusammenwirkens beider Komponenten) sind.

Pizzicato

Algiers To Open Opera House In 2015

The Opera of Algiers, in construction since November 2012 in the southwest suburb of the capital, will be delivered in July 2015.

El Mundo

Plácido Domingo: ‘No vivo de las rentas, sino de mi esfuerzo y mi trabajo cotidiano’

No está claro si Plácido Domingo tiene 73 años o tiene 37.

Twitter

medici.tv ‏@medicitv: Can leading #composers complete a series of #Bach‘s #organ pieces? @Telegraph #MediciClassicalNews http://sco.lt/4u0SQL

Albion Media @albionmedia: A huge congratulations to @JoyceDiDonato for her TWO International Classical Music Awards 2015 nominations!

The Royal Opera @TheRoyalOpera: Which do you think are the most romantic duets in opera? A few of our favourites: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/our-favourite-romantic-love-duets … #music ^C

really big chorus4,000 singers will mark The Really Big Chorus’s 40th anniversary. Photo: Don & Ann Monro