Beverly Sills Reported to Be Gravely Ill
Now Playing: FoxNews reports that she had in fact lost her battle with cancer and had died.
Topic: NEWS performers
The Associated Press is reporting that soprano and arts administrator Beverly Sills is critically ill in a New York City hospital.
The opera diva who won over fans worldwide with her sparkling voice and charming personality and became a powerhouse in the New York arts world, is gravely ill with cancer. The Metropolitan Opera would neither confirm nor deny news of her illness, but people close to her said Sills, 78, was at a Manhattan hospital, with her daughter at her side. Friends and fans around the world are praying for the opera legend and New York megastar. Sills, nicknamed Bubbles for her effervescent personality, is ill from lung cancer. Today, if it can be done, she’ll be transferred from a hospital to her home to live out her final days. She turned 78 on May 25.

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Conductor David Stern Named Music Director of Opera de St.-Gall
Topic: NEWS performers

                        

David Stern, the American conductor and son of the
legendary violinist Isaac Stern,

has been appointed music director of the opera house Opéra de St.-Gall, Switzerland ...
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Many selections including PLAYLIST 921037:

SMETANA Polka from The Bartered Bride; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; James Levine, cond.
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DAVID DIAMOND [photo] Symphony No. 3; Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Gerard Schwartz, cond.
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BOLLING Aria from Suite for Orchestra and Trio; Claude Bolling, piano; English Chamber Orchestra; Jean-Pierre Rampal. cond.
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Mac Morgan, 89, Bass-Baritone Who Went on to Teach Voice, Dies
Now Playing: ...regular on NBC Radio?s ?Highways in Melody"
Topic: MILESTONESJun-Dec07
Mac Morgan was an American bass-baritone who sang on radio, television and the stage from the 1940s to the 1970s and who was later chairman of the voice at Boston University, died on June 12, 2007, in Carrollton, Ga., where he lived. He was 89. He died of complications of an appendectomy, said his daughter Anne Morgan. Mac Morgan had been singing in concert halls and on the radio for years when he was asked to be a soloist at the Mass in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross for John F. Kennedy after the president was assassinated. For the first time, he worried he might not make it through Mozart's "Requiem." In 1946 he became a regular on NBC Radio’s long-running series “Highways in Melody.” In 1958 he appeared in the NBC Opera Company’s televised production of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte,”. He sang on “The Bell Telephone Hour” with Joan Sutherland, on a program that included Peggy Lee.
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Topic: NEWS Industry

Time and again, European orchestral conductors roar into America's side doors, virtually unknown but fully matured and ready to assume major appointments.

Both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recently appointed new music directors - respectively Jaap van Zweden [photo] and Manfred Honeck - who came to them as anonymous as guest conductors can be, then inspired knockout reviews and high marks from the players. Going the opposite direction, the even-lesser-known Canadian Yannick Nezet-Seguin is replacing the superstar Valery Gergiev at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra....MORE...

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Many hours of selections including:
Playlist 930232

J. STRAUSS Let Life Be Joyful Waltz; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, cond.
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HANDEL Water Music Suite in F; Colin Tilney, harpsichord; Academy of St. Martin In The Fields; Neville Marriner, cond.
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TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise from The Sleeping Beauty; USSR Symphony Orchestra; Yevgeny Svetlanov, cond.
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And marking the birth anniversary of American composer JACK GALLAGHER, June 27, 1947, with a performance of his Proteus Rising From The Sea; The Air Force Band of Flight; Lt. Col. Richard A. Shelton, cond.
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Tenor Cuenod, 105, Credits Small Voice
Topic: NEWS performers
Hughes Cuenod was born, June 26, 1902

Hugues Cuenod, the oldest singer ever to debut at the Metropolitan Opera, celebrates his 105th birthday with a message to his younger colleagues: Don't shout.

Cuenod, until recently the world's oldest active opera performer, was known throughout his seven-decade career for his acting and a light, natural tenor ...

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Brilliant Teen Born to Write Symphonies
Now Playing: Dominik Maican on NPR
Topic: NEWS composers
At age 18, Dominik Maican is already an acclaimed composer, with six symphonies, a mass, chamber music pieces, solo piano works and songs to his credit. Dominik is a U.S. citizen, but was born in Koln, Germany, and moved to Washington, DC, in 1991 with his parents Drs. Valerica Maican and Marcel Maican. Dominik beganstudying piano at the age of 3 and composition at the age of 5 with his mother. He isthe proud recipient of nine piano awards and over 40 awards for musical composition

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This fall Maican will attend Indiana University, home to one of the largest music schools in the United States. He says he hopes to get a well-rounded education and leave some of his concentrated music studies behind.

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PLAYLIST 783742
JACK GALLAGHER [photo] Diversions Overture; The Kiev Philharmonic; Robert Ian Winstin, cond.
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MOZART Violin Concerto No 4 K218; Maxim Vengerov, violin-cond; UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
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BIZET Petite Suite, pieces (5) for orchestra (orchestration of Jeux d'enfants Nos. 6, 3, 2, 11, 12); Bastille Opera Orchestra; Myung-Whun Chung, cond.
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...and many other selections.

Ken Masur named new resident conductor of San Antonio Symphony
Topic: NEWS performers
The San Antonio Symphony named Ken Masur, the son of longtime New York Philharmonic music director Kurt Masur, its new resident conductor. ...
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