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From Boston to the Balkans, the Classical Music Industry Shows Its Support

March 16, 2022 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Classical musicians around the world are using their talents to show their solidarity with Ukrainian. “Music is what some of us can give,” Marta Krechkovsky, a Ukrainian violinist who in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, tells the … » Read
 

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SLSO's Powell Hall to Get $100M Upgrade, Expansion

March 16, 2022 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced an ambitious plan to renovate and expand Powell Hall. Originally built in 1925 as the St. Louis Theater, a movie palace and vaudeville playhouse, the venue became the symphony’s permanent home … » Read
 

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Long Beach Opera Cancels Stimmung; Three Employees Quit

March 15, 2022 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Citing problems with “internal communications, work environment, and issues related to equity and diversity,” three key, part-time Long Beach Opera employees have resigned. One of them is Alexander Gedeon, director of Stimmung , by … » Read
 

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Ukraine's 'Basement Violinist' Provides Hope

March 11, 2022 | Paolo Santalucia, Associated Press
ROME, Italy (AP) — A gentle tune from a violin played by a musician who has been dubbed Ukraine’s “cellar violinist” is a lullaby for a child sheltered in the dark basement of an apartment building in the besieged … » Read
 

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Masking and Vaxing at Performances: Stay the Course or Break Free?

March 11, 2022 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Many cultural institutions around the country are asking, “Is it too soon to unmask?” As the Covid-19 virus retreats and local and state governments begin relaxing public health regulations for public venues, arts leaders are once … » Read
 

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Cancelling Russian Artists: "Stop This Madness"

March 11, 2022 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) has canceled an appearance by Alexander Malofeev, a 20-year-old Russian pianist who had been scheduled to perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 March 9-13 with Michael Tilson Thomas on … » Read
 

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Micro Operas in Unlikely Spaces

March 10, 2022 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
A visitor to the St Pancras International concourse in London on March 7, International Women’s Day, might have had a brief operatic encounter. Over the course of several hours, ten singers from the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker … » Read
 

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Forgotten Voices Soon to Be Heard

March 10, 2022 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
On March 31, Carnegie Hall and Music Kitchen–Food for the Soul premieres Forgotten Voices , a composite song cycle written by 15 award-winning composers with a text created by homeless-shelter participants. "The 15 songs of Forgotten Voices … » Read
 

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Kyiv City Ballet Dancers Remain in Paris

March 10, 2022 | Alex Turnbull, Associated Press
PARIS — The dancers are torn between body and mind — physically onstage in Paris but in spirit back home in Kyiv. In other circumstances, the Kyiv City Ballet’s residency at the Théâtre du Chatelet would … » Read
 

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Ukrainian Youth Orchestra Members Flee to Slovakia

March 9, 2022 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
News outlets are reporting the arrival of 30 young Ukrainian musicians, many of them members of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, at the Hungarian border town of Zahony on Sunday, enroute to the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as they flee … » Read
 
 

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