MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: NEWS performers
Star tenor Luciano Pavarotti, suffering from cancer, has been hospitalised for tests, a media spokesman at the Modena University Policlinico in northern Italy says. The 71-year-old, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer a year ago and has since had at least five rounds of chemotherapy, was admitted on Tuesday, Gabriele Sorrentino said. The hospital will issue a formal bulletin later in the day ...Reports...http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=pavarotti&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
Faced with the latest in a series of high-profile withdrawals, the two top officials of the Salzburg Festival spoke out in fury and frustration yesterday, one of them saying that the world's most prestigious classical music event is "not a stepping stone.
It's not that Marc-Andre Hamelin tore up the playbook on how to succeed as a classical pianist. It's that he never seems to have read it. After years of low-profile management and critics who pigeonholed him as a "mere" technical wizard, in 2000 Hamelin hired new managers and at age 45 is greeted with astonished cries of "Where has this guy been?" 
When Kathleen Ferrier died from cancer on 8 October, 1953, aged only 41, the English - and indeed the international - musical stage lost one of its greatest-ever natural singing talents. In a career lasting barely more than a decade, she went from being an ordinary Lancashire lass to an international singing star who captivated all who saw her perform. 
His operas sell out immediately. His theories changed classical music. His artistic legacy still divides his warring family. Millions either love him obsessively or hate him passionately...
Glamorous young Dutch violinist 
Masters and Commanders: Music from Seafaring Film Classics, a Telarc release by conductor Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, is this week's new arrival on the Billboard classical chart, making its debut at no. 9. This disc features selections from the scores of such films as (among others) Pirates of the Caribbean, The Sea Hawk, Mutiny on the Bounty, Captains Courageous, and, naturally, Master and Commander. Masters and Commanders is a swashbuckling musical portrait of valiant seamen, tempestuous captains, eccentric pirates, pious pilgrims and more. 
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...
