Joshua Bell
Photo: Bill Phelps
The Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra just announced 10 concerts in a self-produced Winter-Spring Season, ‘Music For Minnesota: A Season of Shining Stars!’. They pass beyond their stubborn administration, whose leaders proclaimed a singular accomplishment earlier this week. In a year without concerts the management achieved to spend $13M and loose $1.1M. Well done, ladies and gentlemen. You are champions. Read More →
Krzysztof Urbański
The Indiana Symphony Society (ISS) released a truly fine audited financial results for the 2012-2013 season, Krzysztof Urbański’s second full season as Music Director. The orchestra raised more money ($9.8 million) than any other year in its history and achieved its first balanced budget since the 2006-07 season. One needs to remember that 2012/13 had badly started, with a five-week lockout of musicians. Read More →
Die 12 öffentlichen Musikschulen in Berlin werden gemäß des gestern Abend im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus beschlossenen Doppelhaushaltes 2014/2015 in den kommenden beiden Jahren zusätzlich 2,5 Millionen Euro je Haushaltsjahr erhalten. Damit reagierte die Politik auf massive Proteste der Bevölkerung und der Lehrer gegen die massive Unterfinanzierung der Musikschulen.
Sandor Szokolay
Hungarian Composer Sándor Szokolay died on December 8, his family said yesterday. Szokolay was a professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest. He was 82 years old.
Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio music department. Between 1959-94 he taught at the Liszt Academy. Read More →
Leonard Slatkin
At yesterday’s annual meeting of the Governing Members, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) announced good news: During fiscal Year 2013 (i.e. 2012-13 season) the orchestra achieved the first balanced budget since 2007. This success was possible due to a 43 percent increase in fundraising ($18.9 million), a 100 percent increase in the donor base over 2011, and the second consecutive year of subscription sales growth Read More →
Heute vor 85 Jahren wurde in der New Yorker ‘Carnegie Hall’ Gershwins ‘An American in Paris’ von den New Yorker Philharmonikern unter der Leitung von Walter Damrosch uraufgeführt. Read More →
Valery Gergiev
Foto: Marco Borggreve
Als Russlands Herrscher Putin im Juni 2013 ein sogenanntes Anti-Homosexuellen Propaganda-Gesetz unterschrieb, das jede Form der öffentlichen, positiven Äußerungen zu Homosexualität verbietet und unter Strafe stellt, protestieren Schwulenvereinigungen in New York und London gegen den Dirigenten Valery Gergiev, der als musikalischen Handlanger Putins gilt. Nun erwarten den zukünftigen Chef der Münchner Philharmoniker auch in München Proteste. Read More →
Ein Gericht in Paris hat die Komponistin Hélène Blazy wegen Plagiats verurteilt. Sie war von den ‘Editions Le Chant du Monde’, Inhaber der Rechte an den Werken Serge Prokofievs, beschuldigt worden, den Rittermarsch aus dem Ballet ‘Romeo und Julia’ weitgehend kopiert zu haben. Das Musikstück war von Hélène Blazy für die Einweihung des höchsten Turms in Dubai, ‘Burj Khalifa’, geschrieben worden. Read More →
Minnesota Orchestra
Photo: Tim Rummelhoff
In a letter to the Minnesota Orchestral Association’s Board ten legislators of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) ask for the resignations of CEO Michael Henson, chairman Jon Campbell and past chairman Richard Davis. The association is holding its annual meeting today in Minneapolis, 14 months after the beginning of the musicians’ lockout. Read More →
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington appointed Deborah F. Rutter as next president. Ms. Rutter currently serves as the President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and will assume her Kennedy Center duties on September 1, 2014. She will serve as the Kennedy Center’s third president, following Michael M. Kaiser who will step down from the position on August 31, 2014. Read More →
