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Welsh Proms conductor to meet costs if ticket sales fail
The conductor of this year’s Welsh Proms will have to pay the orchestra out of his own pocket if tickets do not sell.
Classical-music.com
Mozart for lunch at St John’s Smith Square
The central London venue announces its new season.
London Evening Standard
Classical music is taking over the world
In China, one factory makes a piano a minute to keep up with demand created by 40 million children studying to play — the expanding middle class throughout Asia is fuelling an insatiable appetite for the orchestra, says Petroc Trelawny.
The Telegraph
Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies: the twin titans of modern music at 80
Ivan Hewett contrasts the styles, personalities and careers of Britain’s leading composers as they enter their ninth decade.
Classic FM
2Cellos cover Mumford and Sons ‘I Will Wait’ in new video
Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser take on the banjo-playing masters in a new video in front of waterfalls in Croatia.
4barsrest.com
How to control a musician’s mind – Personal Branding for Conductors
Mette Hojen, MA in Rhetorics and an expert in executive performance, gives a fascinating insight into why a brass band conductor needs to have a strong sense of personal branding.
The New York Times
Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies
Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, DiesSeymour Barab, a composer known for his whimsical chamber operas on such stirring subjects as passion, poison and pizza, died on June 28 in Manhattan. He was 93.
kultur-port.de
Ab 2015 erhalten Hamburger Institutionen, Gruppen und Vereine die Möglichkeit, ausländische Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus dem Bereich Bildende Kunst für einen Aufenthalt in der neu geschaffenen Ateliergemeinschaft Achterhaus in der Ruhrstraße 88 vorzuschlagen und ihnen die Arbeit an künstlerischen Projekten in Hamburg zu ermöglichen.
klassik.com
Möglicher Käufer der New York City Opera wird ungeduldig
Ein möglicher Käufer der bankrotten New York City Opera, Gene Kaufmann, hat sein Unverständnis zur Verzögerung durch den Vorstand der Oper erklärt.
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Conductor Owain Arwel Hughes
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