7th September: Stravinsky’s grave song rediscovered, a new architectural project for a concert hall in Munich, Jonas Kaufmann singing the British national anthem
Monday 7th September '15
Classical News In today's news, the Guardian announces an old manuscript of Igor Stravinsky has been rediscovered and The Times reports of Jonas Kaufmann's upcoming appearance at the Last Night of the Proms. Also interviews with …
Read2nd January: UK entertainment spending rises, Vivienne Westwood designs for Vienna State Ballet, and New Years Honours List is announced
Thursday 2nd January '14
The Guardian UK entertainment spending rises with surge in film and music streaming Value of film and TV downloads, streams and subscriptions rises to £621m, and number of tracks streamed doubles to 7.4bn The Telegraph Valencia sues opera house …
Read31st October: Pharrell Williams to collaborate with Hans Zimmer, Beethoven for teens, and YouTube domination
Thursday 31st October '13
Classic FM Online Pharrell Williams to collaborate with Hans Zimmer for new Spiderman score Movie composer Hans Zimmer will collaborate with Pharrell Williams for the soundtrack to the new Spiderman film, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Slate Want to Get Rid of …
Read5th September: Xian Zhang, high expectations for Calleja, and missing Tchaikovsky Symphony reappears
Thursday 5th September '13
The New York Times Choosing emotion over virtuosity In his recent solo recital, Soheil Nasseri went in search of virtuosic extremes in a selection of works that demonstrated the piano’s ability to reflect the whole gamut of human …
Read31st May:’Babur in London’, the Israeli Orchestra and Thomas Hewitt Jones
Thursday 31st May '12
Classical Music Magazine Former Royal Academy of Music director jailed for £230,000 fraud Janet Whitehouse, the former director of finance at the Royal Academy of Music who earlier this month pleaded guilty to charges of having defrauded …
ReadOpen Goldberg Variations and MuseScore to appear at Classical:NEXT
Tuesday 20th March '12
Open Goldberg Variations director Robert Douglass, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, and music notation company MuseScore have been invited to demonstrate a unique score-following technology at the Classical:NEXT conference in Munich at the end of May. In …
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