Thursday 24 July 2008 (European Central Time) Sitemap Partner Sites   International News and Reviews Lincoln Center Announces Winners of 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grants The Borromeo String Quartet, violinist Yura Lee and double bassist DaXun Zhang have been named winners of the 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grants, worth $25,000 each. The honorees received their prizes at a ceremony at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse on April 10th. 17.04.2007 / Platbill Arts Battle of the Concert Halls Complementary, competitive or combative? The Barbican and South Bank centres sit within walking distance of each other, fulfilling many of the same functions and serving very similar publics. London is said to be fortunate to have two such institutions, but looking back to the 1960s, when the planning decisions were taken, one wonders how this duplication came about - certainly no other city in the world possesses two large-scale arts hubs in such proximity....To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com: Password proklassika 07.03.2007 / The Telegraph Blair plays down art funding fear The British prime minister has sought to allay fears the UK government is planning to cut back subsidies for the arts. 07.03.2007 / BBC News Passionate believer in pausing for thought The door opens on an elegantly furnished anteroom at Piacenza’s Teatro Municipale. “Maestro”, as Riccardo Muti is known wherever he goes, sits with cigarette in hand, holding court during a rehearsal break. His audience includes friends from Florence, the birthplace of his career; a former cellist at La Scala, Milan, where he reigned supreme for 19 years; and the director of culture for Piacenza, which he has been helping to put on the musical map. He cracks jokes, tells stories about his idols – Verdi, Toscanini, Sviatoslav Richter – and extols the 18th-century school of composers from his native Naples, whose music he will be championing at this year’s Salzburg Whitsun festival. 06.03.2007 / Financial Times Audience demands money back from orchestra Tickets to the world premiere of a symphony have been refunded after it was snubbed by the conductor. Music lovers came down from as far as Yorkshire to hear A Very British Symphony, by the Queen's choirmaster Andrew Gant, in Brighton last week. As the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra concert was about to begin conductor Barry Wordsworth announced Gant's work had been dropped and would be replaced by a Mendelssohn piece. 06.03.2007 / The Argus City Opera Prepares for New Life in Old Home The New York City Opera’s announcement this week that it had landed Gerard Mortier, director of the Paris National Opera, as its new leader was hailed as the beginning of a new era for the company. But it was also the end of a saga of operatic proportions, as Mr. Mortier declared that after nearly a decade of searching for its own home, City Opera would stay put at Lincoln Center and make the best of the New York State Theater, which it shares with the New York City Ballet...To read this article try: Login: opus1classical. Password: proklassika 06.03.2007 / New York Times Wagner - public genius with a private passion for bustles, bows and bodices Composer's notes to couturiers suggest he may have been a secret cross-dresser...To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika 06.03.2007 / The Guardian Make it up as you go along Writing and performing music once went hand in hand. If we want to be better musicians, we need to revive the lost art of composition, says Stephen Hough ...To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika 06.03.2007 / The Guardian Recording technology aided piano scandal, and detected it The recent news of a massive fraud originating in Britain where recordings of other pianists were plagiarized and passed off to unsuspecting critics and consumers as those of an obscure British pianist named Joyce Hatto has reawakened the old debate about how honest recordings really are...To read this articke try: login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika 06.03.2007 / Chicago Tribune 'Writing music? It's like flying a plane' At 19 he wowed the critics with his first symphony; now, at 35, he is one of the world's leading composers. In a rare interview, Thomas Adès talks to Tom Service in Berlin. To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. 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