Thursday 8 January 2009 (European Central Time) Sitemap Partner Sites   International News and Reviews Injury healed, Levine set for busy BSO season LENOX -- His shoulder injury healed and a challenging Boston Symphony Orchestra summer season nearing, a noticeably slimmer and sprier James Levine said yesterday he's feeling better than he has in years. To read this article try Login: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika. 04.07.2006 / Boston Globe Mobile phone users will be able to buy songs from radio Record companies are hoping the mobile phone will help save the radio star after technology was unveiled yesterday that could allow listeners to buy any song playing on any station at the touch of a button. To read this article try Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika 04.07.2006 / The Guardian New Montreal Concert Hall Promised by 2011 Seated in front of a poster bearing the Liberal slogan "Briller parmi les meilleurs," Premier Jean Charest a few days ago promised what so many of his predecessors failed to deliver - a concert hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. 04.07.2006 / Montreal Gazette French Bend on ITunes Law Leading lawmakers have agreed to water down a draft law that could have threatened the future of the iPod in France. The National Assembly voted in March to force companies like Apple Computer to make their online music stores and players compatible with rival products, but key members say they have agreed to many of the weaker measures endorsed by senators. 22.06.2006 / Wired Indelible stamp on Chicago Symphony When a 15-year-old pianist named Daniel Barenboim heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time, he is reported to have said it was “like a perfect machine with a beating human heart”. That was in 1958, the year he made his Chicago recital debut as pianist. 22.06.2006 / Financial Times Hungary Fires Director of State Opera, Ending a Surreal Reign Hungarian minister of culture István Hiller has fired Árpád Jutocsa Hegyi, the controversial general director of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, Italy's ANSA news agency reports. Lajos Vass, an undersecretary of culture, will oversee the struggling company for the next six months. 22.06.2006 / Playbill Arts Anthem vote launched by orchestra - One of Scotland's orchestras has entered the debate over an official national anthem for the country. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has launched an online poll asking users of its website to vote for one of five choices. The contenders are Highland Cathedral, Flower of Scotland, Scots Wha Hae, Scotland the brave and A man's a man.... 22.06.2006 / BBC News Barenboim's Warm Farewell to Chicago CHICAGO, June 18 — At a guess, no one has ever accused Daniel Barenboim of false modesty. Mr. Barenboim — pianist, conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1991 — ended his tenure in grandiose fashion last week, conducting the ninth and culminating symphonies of Mahler, Bruckner and Beethoven on consecutive evenings in Orchestra Hall. To read this try: ID Login: opus1classical: Password: proklassika 22.06.2006 / New York Times A New Musical Arrangement - Local musicians appear resigned to Cleveland Orchestra residency. When the news broke last year that the Cleveland Orchestra would establish a cultural beachhead in South Florida, it was greeted with considerable anger from former members of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, whose wounds were still fresh from the ensemble's demise in 2003. 22.06.2006 / South Florida.com Charleston grooves with Spoleto Festival CHARLESTON, S.C.—There are festival cities and then there are cities in which festivals take place. Charleston, S.C. surely falls into the first category and Toronto just as surely falls into the second. The difference has a great deal to do with profile and scale. The bigger the city, the harder a festival's task to seize the spotlight... 22.06.2006 / Toronto Star More News (169 pages) Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next All Cities Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Bologna Brussels Budapest Chicago Copenhagen Dallas Florence Frankfurt Geneva Helsinki Houston London Los Angeles Madrid Milan Munich New York Paris Philadelphia Prague Rome San Francisco St. Petersburg Stockholm Stuttgart Sydney Tokyo Toronto Valencia Vancouver Venice Vienna Washington DC Zurich November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 50174 concerts in the database

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