4 October: Andris Nelsons leaves CBSO and opinion on the Classic BRITs
Friday 4th October '13
Classical Music Magazine Boston-bound Andris Nelsons to leave CBSO in 2015 ‘with heavy heart’ Andris Nelsons is to leave the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in summer 2015 ‘with an extremely heavy heart’, having decided that his …
Read18th January: Frank Zappa joins Southbank Festival, Success for Spotify and Chin Rest Crowdfunds
Friday 18th January '13
The Guardian The Rest is Noise: here comes the 20th century Gillian Moore, head of classical music at London's Southbank Centre, introduces the first instalment of the year-long festival – and the work of Strauss, Mahler and …
Read24th January – Death and darkness but also renewal
Tuesday 24th January '12
BBC News Soloist Lukas Kmit Hits Right Note On Phone Intrusion. Slovakian viola player Lukas Kmit reacted coolly when a mobile phone interrupted his recital at the Orthodox Synagogue in Presov, in Slovakia. Independent How Debussy Keys Into Japan. In …
ReadClassical Music News – Montserrat Figueras, Australian Chamber Orchestra and iPads
Thursday 24th November '11
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise For Montserrat Figueras Montserrat Figueras, soprano and wife of violist Jordi Savall has passed away aged sixty nine. Daily Telegraph Richard Tognetti: the top dogs from Down Under Ivan Hewett talks to the director …
ReadClassical Music News 22nd November – Innovation on both sides of the Atlantic: ‘The Music Box’, New Orleans, ‘Yes’ in the Linbury Studio and a very different St. Matthew Passion
Tuesday 22nd November '11
New York Times A Symphony of Floorboads, Pipes and Stairs “You’re going to have a house, and the house makes music. When you get here, you’ll figure it out.” One of New Orleans' most recent and innovative …
ReadClassical Music News – 1st September
Thursday 1st September '11
LA Times Music review: ‘Powaqqatsi’ at the Hollywood Bowl The full title of the second film in the “Qatsi” trilogy by director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass is “Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation.” The transformation was that …
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