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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule, after emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said on Thursday.
The historic opera and ballet theatre closed in July 2005, its facade crumbling, its walls and columns pitted by 17 vertical cracks, and its foundations shifting dangerously. |
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| 01.02.2008 / Yahoo News |
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| It's hard to believe, but the old monster is back. Walk down any Paris boulevard and he looms off billboards in that eyes-shut pose of simulated spirituality that baffled and infuriated so many of his musicians. In your local record store - if you've still got one - he's pushing living maestros out of the racks with major-label box-sets and new releases of his unpublished takes. |
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| 01.02.2008 / La Scena |
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| It is better known for nuclear brinkmanship, Stalinist tyranny and a wretched human rights record. But later this year North Korea's softer side will be on view in Britain as its leading musical ensemble embarks on its biggest foreign tour yet. To access this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 01.02.2008 / The Guardian |
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| Do you suffer for your art?
"No. Most of what I do, I do because I'm passionate about it. That is a wonderful way to spend one's life". To access this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 01.02.2008 / The Guardian |
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| It's not just Manchester that loves the Hallé - it's now one of the world's most exciting orchestras. As it enters its 150th year, Tom Service, of The Guardian, joins the party. To access this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 01.02.2008 / The Guardian |
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| The crappy scan of the Frank Gehry building got some attention, so I e-mailed NWS for a digital copy, and here it is (click it for a screen-filling full sized version). It’s obvious now what’s going on — the rendering isn’t true to color, and the newspaper reproduction obscured the building’s most interesting features: an internal atrium that allows those inside and out to see the performance spaces and rehersal rooms (according to the Bloomberg article). |
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| 01.02.2008 / Critical Miami |
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| MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, January 23,
the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy (NWS), celebrated the
groundbreaking of its future home: a Frank Gehry-designed campus in Miami
Beach's City Center district. |
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| 01.02.2008 / PR Newswire |
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| The New World Symphony, which broke ground recently on a new $200 million hall designed by architect Frank Gehry, is getting more than a new home.
The orchestra also received a $5 million grant, from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, to advance its use of digital technology and transform the way audiences experience classical music.
Alberto Ibarguen, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, said the Miami-based foundation chose to give NWS this grant because of the orchestra's innovative approach to concerts, such as its use of Internet2 technology for the remote exchange of master classes, seminars, rehearsals and symposia. |
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| 01.02.2008 / Miami Herald |
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| The Metropolitan Opera has canceled plans to offer performances through on-demand television, a rare miscalculation in its march to show operas on screens of all sizes.
The Met is scheduled to transmit eight operas live to movie theaters worldwide this season. Thirty days after each broadcast, the performance was to have been made available through on-demand services provided by cable television companies. To access this article try: ID Login: opus1classical Password: proklassika |
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| 01.02.2008 / New York Times |
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| NEW YORK -- The New York Philharmonic's concert in North Korea in February is to be broadcast live worldwide, the orchestra recently announced. The Feb. 26 concert in the nation's capital is to be conducted by the orchestra's music director, Lorin Maazel, in the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre.
The program will include the national anthems of both North Korea and the United States; the Prelude to Act III of Wagner's "Lohengrin"; Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," and Gershwin's "An American in Paris." |
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| 01.02.2008 / Miami Herald |
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