In today’s news: why Manchester will never stop celebrating its music, and Voices Now Festival returns for 2017 with Mara Carlyle and Mc Zani. How to improve the security of big events, and the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is about to start. Van Cliburn piano competition is to be streamed live, and ‘Zuzana: A Musical Life’ focuses on the influential harpsichordist.

The Telegraph

Why Manchester will never stop celebrating its music

As if teenage girls don’t have enough to be frightened of in this world that they now have to be fearful of terrorists, too’

Classic FM

Sir Roger Moore listened to opera with his wife before he went to bed each night

The actor Sir Roger Moore, best known for playing the role of James Bond through the ’70s and ‘80s, told Classic FM in 2013 about his delightful pre-sleep ritual.

Classical Source

The Queen’s Medal for Music 2016 / Nicola Benedetti

The violinist Nicola Benedetti MBE has been awarded The Queen’s Medal for Music 2016.

M Magazine

Mara Carlyle, MC Zani For Voices Now 2017

At the festival, Voices Now are launching the biggest ever survey of UK choirs, which will result in the largest online database of groups across the country.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Wie kann man Konzerte besser schützen?

Der Anschlag von Manchester zeigt, wie schwierig es ist, Großereignisse sicher zu machen. Veranstalter wollen künftig schon außerhalb des Geländes damit beginnen.

Concerti

Bei den Musikfestspielen Potsdam Sanssouci werden Feuer, Wasser, Erde und Luft erlebbar

Wenn der Jasmin duftet und Schwalben durch den hellen Abendhimmel sausen, kommt in Potsdam Festivalstimmung auf.

Kulturradio vom RBB

Dokumentationszentrum Neue Dresdner Vokalschule entsteht

Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek baut eine Sondersammlung zur Vokalmusik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts auf.

Pizzicato

Van Cliburn Competition to be streamed live

The Cliburn announces a major new media partnership with medici.tv for the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

WQXR

‘Zuzana: A Musical Life’ focuses on the influential harpsichordist

This past Sunday saw the Washington Jewish Film Festival screening of Zuzana: A Musical Life.

Twitter

Pierre Boulez Saal‏ @boulezsaal Today at #boulezsaal Jazz piano prodigy @BekaGochiashvil shares the stage with fellow Georgian Lisa Batiashvili

Dirigent‏ @dirigent Der britische Cellist Steven Isserlis hat den Preis der Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2017 erhalten.

Schloss Babelsberg, Voltaireterrasse © Leo Seidel/Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg