Topic: BUSINESS
An Amati viola stolen 26 years ago in Milan and valued at four to five million euros has been recovered, reports Il Giornale. ...LINK to complete story
Topic: BUSINESS
Evan Price, a jazz violinist and a member of the Turtle Island String Quartet, lost his violin on April 8 after leaving it outside the Billings, Montana, airport, the Billings Gazette reports. ...LINK to complete story
Tuesday, 11 April 2006
Topic: BUSINESS
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has urged lawmakers to relax visa restrictions that are causing havoc for international artists hoping to perform in the United States. ...LINK to complete story
Thursday, 6 April 2006
Topic: BUSINESS Conductor Keith Lockhart will soon discover whether his audience is mesmerized or thinking about dinner. A new McGill University study will have Lockhart, Boston Symphony musicians, and audience members wired up in an unusual attempt to monitor emotional responses to music ...LINK to complete story
Topic: BUSINESS
British performers and composers are a dominating presence on the shortlist for this year's Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.
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Strini: 'Rolodex of Death' to the rescue for MSO Topic: BUSINESS
Andreas Haefliger was supposed to be the featured pianist for the
Milwaukee Symphony's Brahms Festival. He was to have played the Piano
Concerto No. 2 on March 26 and No. 1 on March 17. But Haefliger fell ill on
March 14 and went home. ...LINK to complete story
Women still trail in world of classical music Topic: BUSINESS
Today increasing numbers of women can be found leading orchestras - on the podium, in the boardroom, the concertmaster chair and the executive offices. Yet, compared to the strides women have made in business and politics, women continue to lag in American symphony orchestras. ...LINK to complete story
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Topic: BUSINESS
The UK's longest-established symphony orchestra has abandoned plans for a US tour because of the time and money needed to secure visas for its players. ...LINK to complete story
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
Topic: BUSINESS
The Bethal Woods Center for the Arts, a new state-of-art performance arts center located at the site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival, will inaugurate its opening season on July 1 with a performance by the New York Philharmonic. The concert, conducted by Bramwell Tovey, will also feature pianist Lang Lang and soprano Audra McDonald.
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Friday, 24 March 2006
Topic: BUSINESS
Europe is about to restrict the centuries-old business of building pipe organs for churches and concert halls. ...LINK to complete story
Friday, 17 March 2006
Topic: BUSINESS
The Northwest Chamber Orchestra, a 33-year-old ensemble based in Seattle, has canceled the remainder of its season and will declare bankruptcy, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. ...LINK to complete story
Saturday, 4 March 2006
Mood: don't ask Topic: BUSINESS
Residents of one Hartford neighborhood hope Beethoven and Mozart will help drive drug dealers and prostitutes out of a local park.
...LINK to complete story [Ed note: Perhaps they could also support live music with a daily concert at lunch time?]
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Topic: BUSINESS
Christie's will auction the Stradivarius violin known as "The Hammer" on May 16 in New York. The auction house predicts that the price could exceed that of the record-setting "Lady Tennant," which sold for over $2 million last year. ...LINK to complete story
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Mood: caffeinated Topic: BUSINESS
As classical music fights for attention (and financial survival) in a pop-culture world, a documentary exposing the inner workings of a professional orchestra is a great idea—to try to make the art form more approachable by removing some of the intimidation and stereotype standing between concertgoers and those unsmiling tuxedoed armies.
But Daniel Anker's look at the Philadelphia Orchestra comprises 90 minutes of missed opportunities—starting with a confused sense of just who this film's target audience is.
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