Topic: CONDUCTOR
There have been many careers launched by a high-profile last-minute
substitution. Thirty-two-year old conductor Ludovic Morlot's could be one
of them after he filled in for an absent Yuri Temirkanov with the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra over the weekend... ...LINK to complete story
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Ivan Fischer, the artistic director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, received Hungary's Kossuth Prize ...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 19 March 2006
Now Playing: Janowski relishes orchestra-building Topic: CONDUCTOR
Marek Janowski is, as they say, old-school. Of course, in classical
music that can mean anything from two decades to 300 years ago, so a tad
more information is needed.
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Saturday, 18 March 2006
Topic: CONDUCTOR
St. Louis Symphony music director David Robertson has won Columbia University's 2006 Ditson Conductor's Award for his championing of American music ...LINK to complete story
Friday, 17 March 2006
Making it easier to get your Phil Mood: cool Topic: CONDUCTOR Like a lot of iPod owners, Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director
Esa-Pekka Salonen has a motley collection of recordings on his little white
portable music player. There's Radiohead, Bj??rk, some meditation
music, a symphony he expects to conduct.
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Thursday, 16 March 2006
Topic: CONDUCTOR
In the sixth decade of a distinguished musical career, and just weeks from his 77th birthday, Andre Previn may be slowing down physically, but his creative juices still flow strongly.
Previn was in Toronto to accept the seventh Glenn Gould Prize. ...LINK to complete story
Wednesday, 15 March 2006
Topic: CONDUCTOR
James Levine plans to use his time off this spring to make permanent changes in his health, the injured conductor said yesterday in interviews with the New York Times and the Boston Globe. ...LINK to complete story
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Conductor Paul Nadler to Step In for Ailing Levine During Met's Fidelio Performances ...LINK to complete story
Tuesday, 14 March 2006
Mood: caffeinated Topic: CONDUCTOR
Robert Spano is the latest addition to the Who's Who of sick conductors ...LINK to complete story
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Robert Craft, the conductor and scholar who served as Igor Stravinsky's confidant during his final years, will not appear at Symphony Space's "Wall to Wall Stravinsky" marathon on March 18 as planned. ...LINK to complete story
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American conductor William Christie founded Les Arts Florissants and brought early music to a wider audience in his adopted France. Lucasta Miller meets him as he takes Handel's Messiah to London ...LINK to complete story
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Conductor James Levine will miss the rest of the Metropolitan Opera's season because of a shoulder injury that requires surgery.
Levine, music director of the Met and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was injured March 1 when he tripped and fell on the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall during ovations that followed a performance. ...LINK to complete story | ...out for rest of season
Monday, 13 March 2006
Topic: CONDUCTOR
The musical world gasped when Riccardo Chailly announced that he was leaving his high-profile job as music director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam to move to Leipzig. ...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 12 March 2006
Topic: CONDUCTOR
Conductor James Levine will miss the rest of the Metropolitan Opera's season because of a shoulder injury that requires surgery.
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