28 APRIL 1908
Topic: CLASSICALmanac.com
1908 Birth of Czech soprano Ludmila CERVINKOVA in Prague. d-14 SEP 1980.
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Rattle stays with Berlin P O
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Sir Simon Rattle has been re-elected as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, despite fears that he would be ousted by a hardcore of naysayers. The vote from the Philharmonic's players gives him a further decade at the helm of the orchestra, with effect from this autumn. MORE

 Rumors of conflict arose after Rattle, 53, announced the philharmonic's program for the 2008 season, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. EARLIER STORY
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Topic: MUSIClassical CONCERT

GRAINGER-GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess Medley; Pierre Huybregts, Carol Wallace Payne, pianos.SHOP Alternates

[photo]RODRIGO: Zarabanda, lejana y villancico; London Sym Orch; Enrique Batiz, cond. SHOP Alternates

VIVALDI: Concerto in e RV 484; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; I Solisti Italiani SHOP Alternates

TELEMANN: Overture in Bb (Orchestral Suite); La Stravaganza Koln SHOP Alternates | PODCAST

Topic: NEWS composers
A plaque is to be unveiled in Berlin on Wednesday (23 APR 2008) in commemoration of Jean Sibelius, the famous Finnish composer, who lived in the city for some time. Sibelius lived in a house at Marienstrasse 4, on which the plaque is to be fastened, while studying in Berlin in 1889-1890. The rich musical life and colourful society of Berlin were an important source of inspiration to Sibelius, who wrote to his friend that he was "like a fish in water" in the German capital.
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Topic: MILESTONES 2008
This is a very sad news I have to give. Great italian baritone Enzo Sordello passed away this 17th of April 2008, at the age of 80.
In the coming weeks, I will totally rebuild his website with new materials, audio, video, and above all some of the many videotaped courses I recorded. (www.enzosordello.com)
Maestro Sordello was such a personnality, it was almost impossible not to like him. Two month ago, he was still singing high bflat while teaching. I will miss him very much. - Addio Maestro.

Topic: MUSIClassical CONCERT
MUSIClassical.com series 189105

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IBERT Divertissement; City of London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, cond.

SPOHR Fantasy For Harp, Op 35; Susanna Mildonian, harp. Alternate suggestion

CUMELL Tonadas, Edmund Battersby, piano. Alternate suggestion

The Great Caruso
Topic: NEWS performers
Enrico Caruso (born Errico Caruso; February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian opera singer and one of the greatest tenors in history. Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre in the first two decades of the 20th Century and one of the most important pioneers of recorded music. Caruso's popular recordings and his extraordinary voice, known for its mature power, beauty and unequalled richness of tone, made him perhaps the best-known operatic star of his era. Such was his influence on singing style, virtually all subsequent Italianate tenors (and many non-Italian tenors) have been his heirs to a greater or lesser extent. He remains famous, though he predated the publicity that would aid later stars of opera.
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Topic: NEW CDs
Weekend Edition Saturday, April 19, 2008 · Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop says Antonin Dvorak's symphony "From the New World" was one of the first big orchestral works to incorporate indigenous American musical ideas. She discusses the music with Scott Simon. LISTEN | WEB LINKS | SHOP Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From The New World" | Alsop writes

Keilberth birth centennial
Now Playing: 19 APRIL 1908
Topic: 2008 Anniversaries
19 April 1908, Birth of German conductor Joseph KEILBERTH in Karlsruhe. d-Munich, 20 JUL 1968, while conducting a performance of Tristan und Isolde, at the National Theater Munich. He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. Near the end of World War II he became principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle. In 1949 he became chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, formed mainly of Germans expelled from post-war Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees. He died in Munich in 1968 after collapsing while conducting Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in exactly the same place as Felix Mottl had done in 1911. Keilberth conducted the first stereo recording of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle in 1955.

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Topic: NEWS performers
Classical music writer Bernard Jacobson looks back at Christoph Eschenbach’s tenure as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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