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| The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has jumped on the digital download bandwagon and launched a subscription download site which links to nearly 60,000 recordings.
The site is the result of a new business partnership between the RSNO and Classical World, which runs website www.classical.com, an online retailer of classical tracks, according to The Herald of Glasgow. |
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| 02.10.2006 / Playbill Arts |
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| Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- With huge screens recording her tiniest tear and smallest bead of sweat, ``Madama Butterfly'' opened the Metropolitan Opera season last night in a gala transmitted live to Lincoln Center Plaza and Times Square as the curtain rose on Peter Gelb's first season as general manager.
Seating was free in both outside venues... |
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| 02.10.2006 / Bloomberg News |
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| The brouhaha was spectacular. Manhattan was agog with excitement. On Monday, Peter Gelb, hitherto best known as a record-company executive, took over as head honcho at the mighty Met. He chose not to tread lightly... |
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| 02.10.2006 / Financial Times |
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| In May, after years of trying to find its own home, New York City Opera learned that its latest plans, for a new concert hall at Amsterdam Avenue and 66th Street, had fallen through: just the latest setback in the company's nearly 25-year effort to improve its location, including a very public and unsuccessful recent push to be part of the arts complex at ground zero. To read this article try ID Login: opus1classical; Password: proklassika |
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| 04.07.2006 / New York Times |
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| Jude Kelly, artistic director of London's South Bank which reopens next summer after a £110 million refurbishment, recently announced what was intended as a radical blueprint for a new era of cultural activity in Britain's most prestigious and heavily funded arts centre.
The heavily-trailed 'vision' incorporates closer collaboration between four resident orchestras at the Royal Festival Hall - the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) - and the appointment of an overarching Head of Music in Marshall Marcus, presently chief executive of the OAE. |
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| 04.07.2006 / La Scena Musicale |
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| Gordon Brown has saved orchestras from the threat of a demand for £33m in unpaid national insurance, a move which could have forced many to close.
After an investigation into the tax liabilities of orchestras employing freelance musicians, Revenue and Customs has advised the chancellor that the orchestras do not have to pay the contributions, thus averting not only the back tax bill of £33m but an annual future bill of £6m. To read this article try Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 04.07.2006 / The Guardian |
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| For three years, the men and women building the Schermerhorn Symphony Center have donned hard hats, heavy work boots and laden tool belts.
But on June 28th, that sweat-soaked and dust-caked garb was left at home in lieu of sports coats, strappy sandals and jewelry. That’s because the nearly 500 workers were the night’s guests of honor. The Nashville Symphony performed a special “hard hat” concert to pay tribute to the carpenters, contractors, electricians, stone layers and many more — that invested their skill, blood and time away from their families to build the musicians a home. |
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| 04.07.2006 / Nashville City Paper |
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| All eyes were on Valencia last October when the Spanish city opened its shiny new opera house, the Palau de les Arts — the final jewel in architect Santiago Calatrava's magnum opus, the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencias complex.
Now, before the venue's first season has even begun, Valencia's Secretary of Culture, Ana Noguera, has criticized the "indecent" sum of €300,000 a year that the government pays to accommodate the "whims" of Helga Schmidt, superintendent of the Palau de les Arts. |
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| 04.07.2006 / Playbill Arts |
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| EMI Group and Warner Music have each rejected £2.5bn bids for the other. EMI dismissed as “wholly unacceptable” a 320p a share takeover approach from rival Warner Music as it attempted to retrieve control of the bid battle. To read this article try Login email: info@concert-hall.com: Password: proklassika. |
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| 04.07.2006 / The Telegraph |
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| Well, what else is a poor band to do when its funding disappears?
On June 23, just before a rehearsal, the Belgian chamber orchestra Beethoven Academie was informed that its government grant was to be eliminated entirely as of 2007 — in effect, that it has six more months to live.
In desperation, and figuring that you can buy and sell anything on eBay, it put itself up for auction on the web site. |
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| 04.07.2006 / Playbill Arts |
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