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| DETROIT — Everybody knows that classical music is dying, young people don't care for orchestral music and minorities in particular aren't interested. Right?
Looks like Ozie Cargile didn't get the memo.
Cargile, a 25-year-old African American who grew up in Detroit and graduated from the University Michigan with a degree in composition, has created a new orchestra from scratch. The Psalm: 150 Symphony gave its inaugural concerts Saturday and Sunday at Wayne State University. |
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| 16.10.2006 / San Jose Mercury News |
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| Amanda Roocroft plays a memorable Jenufa in a superb new staging of Janacek's opera, but its designer makes a dog's dinner of Rigoletto, says Anthony Holden. To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika. |
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| 16.10.2006 / The Guardian |
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| MONTREAL -- For six years at its annual policy summit, the Future of Music Coalition has tried to navigate a path through uncertainty. Now, with the music industry in the midst of its most profound transition since the invention of the phonograph more than a century ago, some solutions are finally coming into focus. |
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| 16.10.2006 / Chicago Tribune |
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| HOW'S this for coming strong out of the gate — the Metropolitan Opera season had not yet officially begun, the gala opening night still days off, and yet the guy in the suit, who doesn't sing a note, was getting an ovation, cheers, "Bravos!" from a packed house, all 3,800 seats filled.
And it wasn't only veteran opera-goers who had scooped up those free tickets for the final dress rehearsal of "Madama Butterfly." Delsin Sefman, 5, was clutching a miniature Power Rangers robot while trying to make sense of the tear-jerker about the Japanese woman who falls for an American sailor. "I didn't like what the girl did to the boy," Delsin told his mom, Tousette, a New York corrections officer... |
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| 16.10.2006 / L.A. Times |
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| The alarmingly small attendance the past few weeks at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts in Music Hall, noted by Enquirer writer Janelle Gelfand on her classical music blog, has ignited a conversation there on how to find solutions. The orchestra, led by Paavo Järvi in his sixth season as music director, is playing better than ever. But lately, concerts that once averaged more than 2,000 people on Friday and Saturday nights have brought out meager crowds in the hundreds scattered around a hall that seats 3,400... |
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| 16.10.2006 / Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Vandalism, mail tampering, a razor blade, anonymous threats — it all sounds like something out of a "Sopranos" episode. But it appears to be musicians, not sopranos, who have been targeting their Seattle Symphony colleagues with anonymous acts that one player calls "orchestral terrorism." |
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| 16.10.2006 / Seattle Times |
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| Piracy and competition for consumers lead to a 4% drop in global music sales, the industry has said. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said total music sales in the first half of 2006 fell to $13.7bn (£7.4bn). |
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| 16.10.2006 / BBC News |
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| On Friday, after a 29-hour auction, most of the bankrupt music retailer's assets were sold to liquidation firm Great American Group, which bid $134.3 million. The company outbid Albany, N.Y.-based retailer Trans World Entertainment by a mere $500,000. |
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| 16.10.2006 / Yahoo/Reuters |
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| Wagnerian tenor Ben Heppner, longtime Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine, bass René Pape, retired soprano and currently active director Renata Scotto, and dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt have been named the recipients of the second annual Opera News Awards. |
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| 12.10.2006 / PlayBill Arts |
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| As conductor David Robertson and violinist Gil Shaham reunite with the New York Philharmonic (October 12–14 and 17), they talk about their unique bond in a conversation moderated by Orli Shaham (Mr. Robertson's wife and Mr. Shaham's sister). |
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| 12.10.2006 / PlayBill Arts |
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