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| 'Why can't we have our own Turner Prize?" is a question I often hear from composers, uttered usually in a resentful tone.
You can understand why. Why should the artists get all the kudos, the champagne receptions, the prime-time slots on TV? Especially as (and this is when composers start to harrumph into their real ale) some of the winning artists don't seem to have much in the way of genuine technique or craftsmanship. |
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| 13.05.2005 / Telegraph |
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| When Clive Gillinson - then a cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra - got married, his best man was the manager of the LSO. "I remember us all sitting down for dinner," Gillinson recalls, "and me saying, 'I don't know why you do that job.'" He laughs because a few years later he abandoned his cello to become managing director of the orchestra, at a time when a large deficit was threatening to sink it. "I'm not sure why they chose me for the job," he says. "I think I must have been the last one out of the room." |
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| 13.05.2005 / Guardian |
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| The Florida Orchestra will make an urgent plea today to the city for $221,000 - nearly three times its current funding - saying its future financial health hinges on the financing.
Orchestra executive director Leonard Stone said the extra money is needed because the orchestra must temporarily relocate some of next season's concerts to Pasadena Community Church while the Mahaffey Theater is being renovated. The city-owned theater will reopen in March and will someday become home to the orchestra's administrative offices. |
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| 13.05.2005 / St Petersburg Times |
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| Philadelphia Orchestra president Joseph H. Kluger, the longest-reigning leader of a Big Five orchestra, said yesterday he was resigning after 16 years at the helm.
Kluger, whose tenure encompassed some of the orchestra's most stunning successes as well as its darkest moments, will step down August 31. He said that "it felt like the right time in the orchestra's institutional life and in my life." To login to this journal try login: info@concert-hall.com - Password: proklassika1 |
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| 13.05.2005 / Philadelphia Enquirer |
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| Negotiations between the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal musicians and management may get a boost from the former Quebec premier, Lucien Bouchard. The OSM earned its reputation as one of the top 10 orchestras in the world through touring and recording, but Bouchard says the inflexibility of the musicians' current contract makes it impossible to keep that up. |
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| 13.05.2005 / CBC Arts |
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| Canadian tenor Ben Heppner has won a prestigious classical music award from the U.K.'s Royal Philharmonic Society.
Ben Heppner sings with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in "Les Troyens". At the group's annual awards gala Wednesday evening, the British Columbia-born Heppner received the best singer award for his performance in the Royal Opera House's production of Peter Grimes. |
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| 13.05.2005 / CBC Arts |
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| Henry Kelly has slammed the summer concert programme at Kenwood House because of the lack of classical music.
The former Classic FM DJ and presenter of hit 1980s game show Going For Gold said that three out of 10 classical music shows was not enough. |
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| 13.05.2005 / Hamstead & Highgate Express |
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| Congo the chimpanzee led a brief artistic career and enjoyed little critical success, despite the patronage of his contemporary and fellow painter Pablo Picasso.
But nearly half a century after Congo was active, some of his paintings are going on sale at a prestigious London auction house alongside works by Andy Warhol and Renoir. |
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| 12.05.2005 / Associated Press |
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| Plácido Domingo was in his dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera, preparing his 121st new role.
Some of those roles he has done hundreds of times: "Tosca," 225; "Otello," 210; "Carmen," around 200. He reeled off the figures, a statistician of his own career. Then there are rarer parts: "Stiffelio," "Oberon." Joining the list tomorrow will be an opera that the Met hasn't done before, either: Franco Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac." To login to this journal try - Login: opus1classical - Password: proklassika |
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| 12.05.2005 / New York Times |
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| The Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra has reached a world-class standard, said a renowned musician. "The orchestra's 102 musicians are talented and have excellent skills," said the orchestra's guest conductor, Russell Keable from the United Kingdom.
"Since the first rehearsal with them, I was astonished by their musicianship and enthusiasm. The musicians share joy in playing music." "It's the first time I've received an invitation to coordinate with an Arabic orchestra.
"At first, I was scared because I didn't have any idea about how good it was going to be. After the first rehearsal, I was astonished by the members' passion for music and performance," Keable told Gulf News after the orchestra's final rehearsal yesterday. |
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| 12.05.2005 / Gulf News |
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