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| As if the demise of Tower Records wasn’t enough, the classical recording business has just suffered another seismic blow, one that may further hasten the obsolescence of the CD format and of record retailing in general. |
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| 22.11.2006 / Musical America |
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| he internationally acclaimed Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is to join the Philharmonia Orchestra in London as its principal conductor from next year, the Guardian can reveal. He will succeed Christoph von Dohnanyi, who has held the post since 1997...To read this article try; Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 22.11.2006 / The Guardian |
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| WHEN the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall opened in the middle of September, it made, I thought, a good first impression. But first impressions can deceive. After only two months, the bloom is already starting to fade. |
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| 22.11.2006 / Los Angeles Times |
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| For the first time since it skirted bankruptcy five years ago, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced a budget surplus at its annual general meeting yesterday.
Although it was all smiles from everyone involved with the organization, from members of the board to music director Peter Oundjian, much fundraising remains to be done. |
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| 22.11.2006 / Toronto Star |
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| BERLIN – The latest operatic crisis to hit this city-state’s cultural life saw the resignation on Nov. 10 of Michael Schindhelm as Generaldirektor of the Opera Foundation that guides the destinies of the Staatsoper and the Komische Oper in erstwhile East Berlin and the Deutsche Oper in western Berlin. Schindhelm, in office for only 18 months of his five-year contract, quit in disgust over a mandate by the federal government to cut the foundation’s budget by 16 percent by 2009, from $143.5 million to $127 million. (He has since withdrawn that resignation, about which more later.)... |
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| 22.11.2006 / Musical America |
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| You’re sitting in utter darkness, listening to the squeaks and shrieks of a difficult piece of contemporary music, when all of a sudden there’s a strong whiff of . . . lemons? It subsides, only to be replaced by a cool draught of something like air freshener, then, several ear-splitting minutes later, a waft of what smells suspiciously like sweaty feet.... |
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| 22.11.2006 / The Times |
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| When the Philadelphia Orchestra announced the impending end to the Christoph Eschenbach era, it gave no reason for his departure.
One Eschenbach spokeswoman said he was leaving because he had achieved what he set out to do. And Eschenbach spokesman Kevin Kleinmann told the Washington Post that the conductor no longer wanted to be tied down to a major orchestra.
But in his first rehearsal with the orchestra since announcing the decision to step down as music director, Eschenbach told musicians that it was the news of their troubled musical relationship that led to his departure...To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 |
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| 22.11.2006 / Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| AAnd so the Eschenbach era in Philadelphia is over. Late last month h announced his plan to step down as music director following the 2007/200 season. Of course, there is the standard happy talk of a future relationship, an that may yet materialize, but a quick denouement, in the manner of parting lovers, i more likely, as occurred with the departure of Riccardo Muti, who became a phanto conductor laureate after his split with the band in 1992. The whole situation i puzzling and frustratin... |
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| 22.11.2006 / City Paper (Philadelphia) |
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| Wanna see the Berlin Philharmonic? That'll be $400
Prices for classical concerts skyrocket as patron base shifts to companies
The price of a single premium seat at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's November 15-16 concert in Seoul is 250,000 won (US$260), yet every single ticket for both nights sold out a month before the concert.... |
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| 22.11.2006 / The Hankyoreh (Seoul) |
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| A calm, elegant exterior belies cramped and ageing structures hampering life backstage, writes Joyce Morgan.
IN THE second act of Swan Lake, elegant ballerinas, with white tutus fluttering, toes pointed, leap across the Sydney Opera House stage at speed and out of sight into the wings. What waits for them there must rank among the least graceful moves in all the world.
But it is one that has saved them from disaster, according to the ballet's artistic director and a former dancer, David McAllister.... |
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| 10.11.2006 / Sydney Morning Herald |
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