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| One evening in 1995, I sidled up to the stage door at Carnegie Hall, snuck inside and mumbled something aboutNewsday having sent me to review a piano recital by Alfred Brendel. It was true, but it felt like a preposterous lie. Why would anyone want to print, read or pay for my puny thoughts on Brendel, that Apollonian prince of the piano? |
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| 13.09.2007 / Newsday |
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| Ask any classical music enthusiast about a favorite piece, and sooner or later she'll start ticking off her favorite recordings thereof. This sort of semi-obsessive cataloging is part of the genre's lingua franca. Yet especially during the CD era it's become increasingly difficult to access the full richness of classical recording history. Major labels have become notorious for releasing a new CD with great fanfare, only to quietly drop it from their catalog a few years later. It's not uncommon for a review of a new recording to conclude with a sentiment along these lines: "Get it now, while you can." To access this article try: Login: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 01.09.2007 / Boston Globe |
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| If you want to be a concert pianist when you grow up, there are certain rules. You do start playing as a young child. You don’t drop out of Juilliard. You do win competitions and get the attention of managers at a young age. You don’t end up at 30 with no management and no bookings, raising the money yourself for your first recording. And you definitely don’t make your New York recital debut with Bach’s demanding “Goldberg” Variations, which are supposed to reflect the wisdom of long experience, and Baroque style.
Simone Dinnerstein, 34, has made her career by breaking every rule in the book. To access this article try: ID Login: opus1classical Password: proklassika |
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| 01.09.2007 / New York Times |
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| CDs are about to become a lot cheaper with an announcement by music retailer HMV that it is cutting prices.
On back catalogues from popular artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Metallica and U2, the cuts could be high as $10 per CD.
Effective immediately, prices will drop an average of 20 per cent, with some titles reduced as much as 33 per cent, HMV reported in a press release. |
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| 01.09.2007 / CBC |
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Musicians and singers work for years to develop their sense of pitch but few can name a musical note without a reference tone. U.S. researchers on Monday said one gene may be the key to that coveted ability.
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Only 1 in 10,000 people have perfect or absolute pitch, the uncanny ability to name the note of just about any sound without the help of a reference tone. |
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| 01.09.2007 / Yahoo News |
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| BERLIN (AP) - The Berlin Philharmonic became a privileged servant of Nazi propaganda after Adolf Hitler's 1933 takeover, striking a deal with the new regime that won it financial security and perks such as fine instruments and draft exemptions for the musicians.
That's according to a new book recounting how the orchestra - then and now considered one of the world's best - lent its gloss to the Nazis. The arrangement saw the orchestra touring abroad as an example of supposed German cultural superiority and serenading Hitler on his birthday. To access this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 01.09.2007 / Guardian |
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| The inaugural season of Opera Cleveland has reinforced several truths about this most multifaceted of art forms: Opera is wondrous, unpredictable, exasperating and always in the process of transformation... |
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| 01.09.2007 / Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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| Spontaneously, a new dress code has appeared at the Proms: every night, dotted all over the Royal Albert Hall are concertgoers in the brightly-coloured jackets of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela which the young players threw into the auditorium with wild abandon after they had brought the roaring, stamping audience to its feet last week with encore after encore. These coveted coats send out the silent, proud message: 'I was there, and it will be a night I will never forget.' |
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| 01.09.2007 / The Observer |
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| I am not sure anything quite like Gustavo Dudamel and his extraordinary group of young musicians have ever hit the Proms before. Whatever you have read about the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra - and the astonishing Venezuelan system of musical education that brought it into being - can't convey the brilliance and disarming exuberance of their playing, or the importance of Dudamel's role in channelling that energy. There are some great youth orchestras around today, but none of them is as exciting to behold as this. To access this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 01.09.2007 / Guardian |
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| From the earliest radio broadcasts to audio streaming of concerts, classical music has been one of technology’s unlikeliest friends. Now it is preparing for what observers say could be its biggest leap forward.
Next month, audience members from round the globe will be able to sit in a three-dimensional virtual version of Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool, and watch and listen live as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra gives the opening concert of its new season. |
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| 01.09.2007 / Financial Times |
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