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| Even in the Gadarene rush of Blairites leaving Whitehall ahead of the Gordon Brown regime, the mass exit from Arts Council England seems almost indecently hasty.
Gone, in one lemming leap, are the heads of theatre, dance, literature and visual arts - four of the five art forms funded by the council... |
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| 26.10.2006 / La Scena |
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| When American soprano Deborah Voigt was bumped from the Royal Opera House’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos in 2004, because she couldn’t fit into a slinky black cocktail dress, it sent shockwaves throughout the opera world. Had we passed into a superficial age where looking the role became more important than sounding the role?... |
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| 26.10.2006 / Gramophone |
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| Keith Warner is giving a cast member some advice. "Don't worry if you come in a little late," he says. "On the night, you'll be fitted with a little electronic device that sends several thousand volts through you if you forget."...To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika. |
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| 26.10.2006 / The Guardian |
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| Michael Tilson Thomas was poised to give the downbeat to begin Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra when a loud squawk from a security person's radio crashed into the expectant silence. "That's impossible," he said turning to the audience, annoyed but politely asking for more behavioral discretion. "We can hear you just as well as you can hear us," said the conductor... |
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| 26.10.2006 / The Florida Sun-Sentinel |
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| The agony of waiting and wondering is over.
Philadelphia Orchestra music director Christoph Eschenbach, championed by some and dismissed by others, is leaving at the end of his contract, at the end of the 2007-08 season, with a European tour as a winter 2009 coda.
Though every Philadelphia music director's tenure has had heated moments, none has been shorter and few have been more polarized than Eschenbach's...To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 |
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| 26.10.2006 / Philadelphia Enquirer |
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| Christoph Eschenbach is pulling down the curtain on his tenure as the Philadelphia Orchestra's music director, the ensemble has announced on his behalf .
The German conductor will leave at the end of next season, when his contract expires, making his five years at the orchestra helm its shortest music-director tenure in a century...To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 |
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| 26.10.2006 / Philadelphia Enquirer |
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| IN 1995, when Matthew Broderick was starring on Broadway in a popular revival of the Frank Loesser musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” I asked him a rather naïve question during an interview....To read this article try ID Login: opus1classical; Password: proklassika. |
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| 26.10.2006 / New York Times |
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| The future of Britain's long and noble tradition of amateur music-making is facing a renewed crisis unless action is taken soon to protect sustained and progressive teaching in state schools. |
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| 26.10.2006 / The Observer |
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| Lyric Opera of Chicago said last Friday that shopping mall developer Matthew Bucksbaum and his family are giving $2 million to help sponsor its local and national radio broadcasts through the 2011-12 season. To read this article try: login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 26.10.2006 / Chicago Tribune |
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| Arvo Pärt will dedicate all performances of his music during the 2006-07 season to the memory of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered on October 7.
The Estonian composer said in a statement released today (and reported by Reuters), "Anna Politkovskaya gave all her talent and energy, and eventually her life, so that people would know and be aware of the appalling crimes being committed in Russia ... In my grief at such a tragic loss, I ... would like to make a memorial gesture." |
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| 20.10.2006 / PlayBill Arts |
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