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| Here are some of the things Peter Oundjian did during a week in Detroit in May other than lead the Detroit Symphony Orchestra through four rehearsals and three concerts:
He drove artistic planning sessions for 2008-09. He joined the jury for bass auditions. He attended a fund-raising dinner for gilded DSO donors. He taped a program at WRCJ-FM (90.9). He met with a violinist to talk about young Armenian musicians. He sat in on a marketing meeting about the DSO's ambitious 8 Days in June Festival, which begins its maiden voyage last Thursday. |
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| 25.06.2007 / Detroit Free Press |
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| The Budapest Symphony is one of Europe's oldest orchestras, established in 1853 and playing concerts ever since in the celebrated Hungarian State Opera House. But this year, the Hungarian government declined to pay the usual subsidy that kept the orchestra afloat, and the organization finds itself scrambling to find new revenues to replace the public funds. |
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| 18.05.2007 / Budapest Sun |
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| In his five years with the Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle has grappled with conservative critics and the language barrier. But most daunting, he tells Tom Service, is the orchestra's huge, visceral sound. To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 18.05.2007 / The Guardian |
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| Young people are increasingly tuning in to classical music, new radio listening figures show today.
More tuning in: Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles
Classic FM, Britain's most popular classical music channel has seen a huge growth in the number of under 15s listening to their music.
According to official audience figures published by RAJAR, nearly half a million under 15s now regularly listen to the station - up by half on just three months ago.
Darren Henley, Classic FM's Managing Director, said: "These figures prove that today's iPod generation is increasingly turned on by classical music.
"Mozart and Beethoven remain as relevant today as they were in their own lifetimes". To read this article try Login email: info@concert-hall.com: Password proklassika. |
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| 18.05.2007 / The Telegraph |
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| BEIT MERI, Lebanon - Italian conductor Riccardo Muti is to launch a season of summer festivals in Lebanon that were scrapped last year because of the Israel-Hezbollah war, organisers recently announced.
Muti is to conduct his orchestra at the Roman temples of the eastern city of Baalbek before playing the piano at a concert during the Beiteddine Festival near Beirut. |
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| 18.05.2007 / Middle East Online |
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| Classical music has been as impervious to Blair as Blair has been to serious music - although the pressure to be popular has had negative effects... |
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| 18.05.2007 / The Guardian |
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| One lunchtime last summer, I was set upon by a pair of music industry heavies who pounded the table with evangelical fervour. Classical music, they thundered, has been born again. It’s on iTunes.
Forget it, I protested. There’s nothing on sale beyond a handful of popular concert works, it takes four separate transactions to download a symphony, movement by movement, and the sound quality when played back over anything bigger than a personal earpiece is cramped and distorted. |
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| 18.05.2007 / La Scena |
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| Last Updated: Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 10:06 GMT 11:06 UK
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£10m pledged to Royal Opera House
The Floral Hall was restored in 1999 as part of a £214m redevelopment
The Royal Opera House is to receive a £10m donation from the foundation of late philanthropist Lord Hamlyn.
The Covent Garden venue's Floral Hall will be renamed the Paul Hamlyn Hall in honour of the publisher and arts patron, who died in 2001. |
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| 18.05.2007 / BBC News |
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| Warner Music Group, home to Madonna and James Blunt, today flagged up a "challenging" environment as it posted widening losses and announced plans to axe hundreds of jobs.
In common with the wider music industry, Warner has been trying to adjust to a sharp fall in CD sales sparked by rampant piracy and a move to online music buying. To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 18.05.2007 / The Guardian |
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| British composer Brian Ferneyhough was awarded the 2007 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize recently in Munich, in a ceremony at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He receives Eu 200,000 and the satisfaction of joining an elite group of laureates, including Benjamin Britten, Olivier Messiaen, Mstislav Rostropovich, Witold Lutoslawski, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Daniel Barenboim and others. |
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| 18.05.2007 / Musical America |
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