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23rd April: English National Opera’s new season could be one to remember, have ENO betrayed British talent? German orchestra influence performance of school children

Thursday 23rd April 2015

Classical News

In today’s news, there is a lot about the English National Opera’s 2015/16 season, unveiled yesterday. It includes six new productions and five favourites in order to get through its troubled times. Tom Service believes that despite the financial problems, it could be a season to remember, for positive reasons, for the ENO. However, the Telegraph’s Rupert Christiansen says top British talent has been left out of the programme in a major way. Moving away from the ENO, the biennial Menuhin Competition has opened in the year where it would have been Yehudi Menuhin’s 99th birthday. The BBC also carries a story on  the transforming power of orchestras in schools.

The Guardian

ENO announce cloth-cutting season for 2015/16

Six new productions and five revivals attest to English National Opera’s current troubled circumstances, while artistic director John Berry hails ‘exciting and challenging’ times

Smaller is beautiful: ENO’s new season offers invention and ambition

Even if the 2015-16 season’s focus and concentration are the direct result of financial body-blows, this could be a year to remember for the right reasons at the Coliseum

The Telegraph

English National Opera has betrayed British talent

Our top-flight singers have been shunted aside in ENO’s new season. It is a disgrace, says Rupert Christiansen

Classic FM

Menuhin Competition 2016 opens for entries

The biennial Menuhin Competition comes to London in 2016, in partnership with Classic FM. And today, on what would have been the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin’s 99th birthday, the organisers have opened next year’s competition for entries.

BBC

The orchestra fine-tuning the performance of school students

The school’s results have improved, its drop-out rates have fallen to less than 1% and the atmosphere in the wider neighbourhood has been “transformed.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Seehofers “Zwillingslösung” auf dem Prüfstand

Am Freitag wird ein Gutachten veröffentlicht, das klären soll, ob die beiden großen Orchester Münchens gemeinsam die Philharmonie und den Herkulessaal bespielen könnten.

pizzicato

Internationaler ARD-Musikwettbewerb bis 2020 abgesichert

Die Intendanten der ARD stimmten einer Empfehlung ihrer Hörfunkkommission zu, den Internationalen Musikwettbewerb auch weiterhin zu organisieren. Der aktuelle Vertrag, der Ende 2016 ausläuft, wird bis zum 31. Dezember 2020 verlängert.

MUSIK HEUTE

Orchester zeichnen Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission aus

Die Deutsche Orchestervereinigung (DOV) verleiht den “Hermann-Voss-Kulturpreis” in diesem Jahr an die Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission.

The New York Times

New York Philharmonic’s Challenges Go Beyond the Music

The New York Philharmonic, the nation’s oldest symphony orchestra and the former home of Leonard Bernstein and Gustav Mahler, is preparing for its greatest upheaval in decades.

San Francisco Classical Voice

John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi is the Shakespeare of Music

For the better part of a half century, English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner has been one of the leading forces in the early music revival.

Twitter

BBC Proms Team @bbcproms : It’s the 2015 BBC Proms launch day!!! Only 4 hours until the full #bbcproms programme is revealed

Jessica Duchen @jessicaduchen : ENO’s new season. What’s really missing? http://jessicamusic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/find-your-voices.html …

ABRSM ‏@ABRSM : New for piano! We’ve just released Encore, a collection of favourite piano exam pieces from the past few decades! http://bit.ly/1DRMylg 

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BBC Proms. Photo: FlowingProse