BACKIn today’s news: Creative industries could lose up to £3.3bn and 27,000 jobs from the Brexit, City Music Foundation announces 2017 artists and Radio 3 has teamed up with BBC Music Introducing to discover new female classical composers and performers in light of International Women’s Day. Also, more women come forward with allegations against Charles Dutoit, and the acess to the Elbphilharmonie plaza should continue being free of charge in the opinion of the Hamburg Taxpayers Association.
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Baroque string specialist working for music publisher forced to leave UK after visa non renewal
The decision highlights the lack of seriousness with which the UK visa authorities view the arts world.
Classical Music
Creative industries under threat from no-deal hard Brexit
Creative industries could lose up to £3.3bn and 27,000 jobs from the Brexit
City Music Foundation announces 2017 artists
The 5 musicians selected include Lotte Betts-Dean, Eblana String Trio, Alex Hitchcock, Gwenllian Llyr and Rokas Valuntonis.
Programme for Piccadilly Chamber Music Series announced
The Church of St James Piccadilly will host a brand new annual series of chamber music concerts from 2018.
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BBC R3 seeks unsigned women composers
Radio 3 has teamed up with BBC Music Introducing to discover new female classical composers and performers in light of International Women’s Day.
Limelight
More women come forward with allegations against Charles Dutoit, including rape
Just a day after the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London announced that Charles Dutoit would be vacating his posts as artistic and principal conductor ahead of schedule following multiple allegations of sexual assault, another six women have come forward with further accusations, one of them alleging rape.
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Ultraschall Berlin – Festival für neue Musik 2018 – 20. Jahrgang startet am 17. Januar
Kulturradio vom Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) und Deutschlandfunk Kultur veranstalten vom 17. bis zum 21. Januar 2018 „Ultraschall Berlin“. Das Festival für neue Musik präsentiert im 20. Jahrgang in zahlreichen Konzerten 18 Ur- und sechs Erstaufführungen.
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‘British German Philharmonic Orchestra’ in Bad Homburg gegründet
Die Kurstadt Bad Homburg bekommt ein neues Orchester. Der Organist und Dirigent Marius Beckmann (*1993) hat dort das BGPO (British German Philharmonic Orchestra) gegründet.
Musik Heute
Steuerzahlerbund: Zugang zur Elphi-Plaza kostenfrei lassen
Der Zugang zur Plaza der Elbphilharmonie sollte nach Meinung des Hamburger Steuerzahlerbundes auch weiterhin kostenlos bleiben.
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En Moselle, une école de musique victime du vol de 22 instruments
A Distroff, en Moselle, l’école de musique Mélodia a été victime d’un cambriolage lors de la première semaine de janvier 2018. 22 instruments ont été dérobés.
France Musique @francemusique: 10 petites choses que vous ne savez peut-être pas sur Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski https://www.francemusique.fr/musique-classique/10-petites-choses-que-vous-ne-savez-peut-etre-pas-sur-piotr-ilitch-tchaikovski-57926 …
Music History @today_classical: #Today in 1894 FP of #Dvorák‘s String Quintet in Eb, Op. 97 American in NYC. #MusicHistory #classicalmusic
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