The city of Cremona, 90 kilometers south-east from Milan, will inaugurate on Sept. 14. its ‘Museo del Violino’. The town where Antonio Stradivari and other master violin-makers worked, is to celebrate this grand opening with a month long ‘Stradivarifestival’ from 14 September to 13 October, through exhibitions, concerts and meetings. Read More →
Algerian capital Algiers is hosting the 5th edition of the International Festival of Symphonic Music, September 12 to 19. Twenty foreign orchestras are invited to participate, alongside the Algerian National Symphony Orchestra. The orchestras come from Czech Republic, Syria (yes, they still have a Symphony Orchestra), Irak (they have it again), Tunesia, Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, China, Japan, Mexico, Belgium (Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie) and Turkey.
Hunderttausende von Polizisten und paramilitärischen Kräften sicherten das Gebiet weiträumig ab, wo am Samstagabend (7/9/13) das so genannte Friedenskonzert von Zubin Mehta und dem Bayerischen Staatsorchester stattfand, organisiert vom deutschen Botschafter in Delhi, Michael Steiner. Das Konzert in der umkämpften Kaschmir-Region war im Vorfeld von Separatisten heftig kritisiert worden und rief jetzt auch die harsche Kritik von Einwohnern und lokalen Persönlichkeiten der Stadt Srinagar hervor. Read More →
The 119th season of the BBC Proms provided the organizer with new record figures. Average attendance for the main evening Proms in the Royal Albert Hall this year was 93%, equal to last year. However a record 57 of 75 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall wre sold out, six more than in 2012, and over 300,000 people attended concerts at both the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall. Read More →
After the merger of Warner and EMI, EMI Classics and Virgin Classics Labels are not to disappear so soon. As long as the new owner has a stock with the old names, CDs and DVDs will be sold with the EMI and Virgin logos. However, when a reprint is necessary, the Warner Classics and Erato names will be used.
Sir Simon Rattle
In der britischen Presse vermehren sich zur Zeit die Spekulationen darüber, ob Sir Simon Rattle nicht vielleicht wieder Lust hätte, einem britischen Orchester vorzustehen. Und konkret wird dabei das ‘London Symphony Orchestra’ genannt, wo 2015 der Chefposten frei wird. Das wäre viel früher als Rattles Vertragende in Berlin. Read More →
Disney Concert Hall
Photo: Remy Franck
A series of outstanding events in Los Angeles feature Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yo-Yo Ma, Leif Ove Andsnes and Julie Andrews for the celebration of the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s 10th anniversary. The venue designed by Frank Gehry opened to the public in 2003. Read More →
Marin Alsop
Photo: Grant Leighton
Marin Alsop, Chefdirigentin des ‘Orquestra Sînfonica do Estado de São Paulo’und des ‘Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’, wird in diesem Jahr eine besondere Ehre zuteil: Als erste Frau dirigiert die US-amerikanische Dirigentin am heutigen 7. September die ‘Last Night’ der ‘BBC Proms’. Read More →
John Wilson
Photo: RTE
Irish Broadcaster RTÉ today announced John Wilson as Principal Conductor Designate of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Wilson has been the RTÉ CO’s Principal Guest Conductor since 2009. He will succeed David Brophy as RTÉ CO Principal Conductor in January 2014. Read More →
American Soprano Christine Brewer changed from IMG Artists to Askonas Holt because IMG double-booked her for an engagement in 2014. She is scheduled to sing the Abbess in ‘Sound of Music’ at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and so had to cancel a concert with the St. Louis Symphony. « My agent multi-booked me, » she told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. « It makes me look like a big jerk. »
