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My Favourite Records: Alec Baldwin.
The eminent actor and New York Philharmonic announcer lists his favourite music.
Washington Post via the LA Times
La Scala Manager Says 7-Year Streak Of Balanced Budget Difficult To Hold In 2012.
La Scala general manager Stephane Lissner’s first goal when he arrived at the renowned opera house in 2005 was to balance the budget, which he did that year and every year since. This year could be different, he warned Tuesday.
The Independent
Sir Thomas Allen Is Still Fresh, Four Decades On.
Thomas Allen talks about his role as ‘Don Alfonso’ to Michael Church.
The Guardian
Jonathan Harvey: Touching The Void.
Jonathan Harvey’s music has always contained visions of the beyond. As he faces death himself, he talks to Tom Service.
Gramophone
Nicholas Daniel To Receive Queen’s Medal For Music.
Oboist and conductor is the seventh winner of the award.
Must We Witness Denmark’s Great Operatic Decline?
Tough Decisions Face The Royal Danish Opera But It Doesn’t Have To End In Tragedy.
Telegraph
Until last year Sameer Rahim had little interest in classical music – but now he is hooked on opera. In a new column he offers a novice-eye’s view of this seemingly forbidding but truly magical art form.
New York Times
Carnegie Hall’s 2012-13 Season Includes A Latin American Festival.
An Arab-Israeli orchestra, a Latin American festival and the crowning ensemble of Venezuela’s music program aimed at helping the poor will be major presences at Carnegie Hall next season, examples of the growing urge to make classical music socially relevant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/music/gustavo-dudamel-part-of-carnegie-halls-2012-13-season.html?_r=1&ref=classicalmusic