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| AFTER just a few months on the job, Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon has already had a salutary effect on the company's orchestra.
"We've all played with a lot of conductors," says concertmaster Stuart Canin, "but James' rehearsal technique is way beyond everyone else's. He has a way of doing things so that we get to hear the other sections and connect with them, and that's what makes a great ensemble." |
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| 01.03.2007 / LA Times |
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| For many, the news that Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra have a future together came across as a bit of high drama. Even members of the orchestra were caught off guard. Dutoit?
After all, the Swiss-born conductor was passed over here for the job of music director twice...To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 |
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| 01.03.2007 / Philadelphia Enquirer |
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| The ENO said the losses, to include performers and technical staff, were needed to make it "artistically and financially viable in the long term".
It is aiming to cut fixed costs - £20m of its £30m turnover - saying it feared reduced funding if government money to the Arts Council did not increase. |
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| 01.03.2007 / BBC News |
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| Like some fairy tale spring that never runs dry, the eloquence and freshness of Mozart's music continue to inspire composers two and a half centuries after his death.
The latest opus to draw on those strains is "A Flowering Tree," John Adams' new opera of love and redemption that gets its U.S. premiere beginning Thursday with the composer conducting the San Francisco Symphony. |
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| 01.03.2007 / San Francisco Chronicle |
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| The best may be yet to come in the Metropolitan Opera's high-definition movie-theater simulcasts.
The cast, production and music of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin promise to be a particularly distinguished package when transmitted to four area movie theaters at 1:30 this afternoon. For the sake of those just now returning from Christmas vacation on a desert island, these simulcasts have significantly changed the way opera can be consumed.
"We've had a lot of people who didn't know it was going to be so popular. Many didn't realize you needed to buy tickets in advance," said Met spokeswoman Sommer Hixson. "That's why we scheduled the encores." To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 |
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| 01.03.2007 / Philadelphia Enquirer |
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| Trading Bach and Beethoven for Brooks & Dunn, classical music station K-Mozart will switch to country at 6 a.m. Monday, bringing the genre back to FM radio in the Los Angeles-Orange County market.
KMZT-FM (105.1) will swap names and formats with sister station KKGO-AM (1260), now billed as "Go Country," said owner Saul Levine, president of their parent company, Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters. |
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| 01.03.2007 / LA Times |
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| In a surprise move made without the knowledge or approval of its full musician membership, the Philadelphia Orchestra has appointed Charles Dutoit chief conductor and artistic adviser. To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 |
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| 01.03.2007 / Philadelphia Enquirer |
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| Ever since Arturo Toscanini himself held the podium there, Milan's Teatro alla Scala has had a strict rule: no encores. The continuity and integrity of the score, the music and drama as a unit, must be respected. (Today many other houses follow the same practice, most famously the Metropolitan Opera.) |
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| 01.03.2007 / Playbill Arts |
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| Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, said the appointment announced a week before the 2007 - 8 season’s unveiling — was part of a long-held plan. To read this article try: opus1classical Password: proklassika |
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| 01.03.2007 / New York Times |
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| Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Carsen, director of Leonard Bernstein's ``Candide,'' which was dropped by Milan's La Scala opera house on Dec. 28, said the production was back on the slate after he agreed to adjust it for the Milanese audience. |
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| 03.01.2007 / Bloomberg |
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