10th February: Brainwave created compositions, classical music at the Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony, and WildKat PR are hiring
Monday 10th February '14
WildKat PR Join the WildKat PR team in London! WildKat PR are looking for a new Account Manager to join the lovely WildKat PR London team… BBC News How to compose classical music with your brainwaves Professor at Plymouth University …
Read29th January: Another stolen Stradivarius, Man dressed as Mozart for Super Bowl media, and string quartet pecking order revealed
Wednesday 29th January '14
BBC News Hidden hierarchy in string quartets revealed Scientists have come up with a way to reveal the pecking order within a string quartet Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 'Priceless' Stradivarius violin stolen in armed robbery in Milwaukee A 300-year-old Stradivarius violin …
Read27th January: Boy with no arms plays trumpet, Classical Grammy Award winners, and challenging ‘fat lady sings’ parody
Monday 27th January '14
BBC News Orchestras 'still hostile to women' Although there are hundreds of female musicians, very few orchestras have female directors and conductors Limelight Magazine Classical Grammy Awards 2014 Australian Chamber Orchestra and Dawn Upshaw head the impressive list of this …
Read7th January: Rare Beethoven manuscript for Auction, Guardian to raise cover price, and ‘H2Orchestra’ performance
Tuesday 7th January '14
New York Times A Page of Beethoven May Fetch More Than $200,000 A rare Beethoven manuscript — actually, a leaf from a late-period sketchbook that the composer apparently tore out and carried in his pocket while composing …
Read16th December: Taylor Swift donates to Orchestra, 2014 Academy Awards, and Wagner inspired by migraines
Monday 16th December '13
Gramophone Taylor Swift donates $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra The singer-songwriter makes a birthday gift The Guardian Synthesisers are killing film and TV music, say British composers Carl Davis and Christopher Gunning claim synthesised orchestras are preferred to the …
Read10th December: Audience boos La Traviata, the question of sacred music, and flash mob
Tuesday 10th December '13
The Guardian Polish tenor hits back after a 'fanatical minority' boos La Scala production Piotr Beczala says he will not take another role in Italy after section of audience boos new production of La Traviata Limelight Magazine What's the …
Read26th November: Sculpting a new Southbank, Cricket ‘choir’, and Chaos for Rome Opera
Tuesday 26th November '13
Classic FM Online Cricket 'choir' sounds like human voices A 'choir of crickets' that sounds like humans singing has divided the critics after a Soundcloud clip has surfaced online National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain announces 2014 players Following …
Read22nd November: Eric Whitacre with Pentatonix, Tom Hodge on Collaboration, and the American Stradivarius
Friday 22nd November '13
Classic FM Online Eric Whitacre to work with Pentatonix? The choral composer met the 'Daft Punk' singers in London, discussing the possibility of working together Huffington Post Tom Hodge On The Nature Of Collaboration Composer and Pianist Tom Hodge examines …
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