Topic: MILESTONESJun-Dec07
World-renowned flutist and composer Louis Moyse, co-founder of Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival and teacher to top flutists around the world has passed away...
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Nationwide CD sales have continued to plummet. Figures for the first half of this year show a 15 percent decrease compared with the same time last year. Digital sales continue a steady ascent, even among classical fans who were at first slow to get into downloading. But many classical listeners still prefer to buy their music on CD at retail shops. 
A cellist's collection of autographs of some of the greatest names in 20th Century classical music is to be sold. In between rehearsals, Ambrose Gauntlett persuaded the likes of Elgar, Prokofiev, Stravinksy and Toscanini to sign his book. 
Marin Alsop 
Two new novels exploring the lives of classical musicians living under Nazi rule in WWII-era Germany are raising eyebrows in the dual worlds of music and literature. At the heart of both books is the chilling conflict of great art in the face of great evil, and the inescapably human decisions that must be made in such situations. 
Who will be the next to take the throne at the world-famous Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, which starts Wedensday? DW spoke with the most likely candidate, Richard Wagner's great-granddaughter Katharina. Ever since Wolfgang Wagner, director of the Bayreuth Festival and the composer's grandson, announced in 1999 that the search for a worthy successor was underway, festival fans and classical music connoisseurs have been hotly speculating on the lucky heir. 
American opera singer Teresa Stich-Randall, a soprano praised by Arturo Toscanini as "the find of the century," has died 17 JUL 2007 in Vienna, Austria's Bundestheater said Tuesday without specifying the cause of death. Acclaimed for her interpretations of Mozart's greatest works, Stich-Randall shuttled between the United States and Europe, where she spent most of her professional career singing in the world's great opera houses. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961 in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and was a regular at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera, where she performed on 355 separate occasions before retiring in 1972. 