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Top Atlanta Arts Exec Sees New Symphony Hall as a Priority

February 4, 2019 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
This year marks the 50 th anniversary of Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center, a cultural campus modeled on Lincoln Center that serves as landlord and administrative overseer of the High Museum of Art, Alliance Theater, and Atlanta Symphony … » Read
 

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Banff Center Names New Directors of Summer Program

February 4, 2019 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, which self-defines as “Canada’s leading post graduate arts and leadership training institute,” has appointed the  Gryphon Trio to direct its classical music summer programs as of … » Read
 

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Welser-Möst Exits Berlin's New Flute; De la Parra Steps In

February 1, 2019 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
In what promises to be an unusual production, by Los Angeles-based enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra will take over the new Die Zauberflöte at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden, opening February 17. The … » Read
 

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New Artist of the Month: Cellist Evan Kahn

February 1, 2019 | Georgia Rowe, Musical America
SAN FRANCISCO—Cellist Evan Kahn’s career trajectory is rare for a recent music school graduate, but then so is his talent. He earned his master’s degree in chamber music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music just last … » Read
 

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Three Young Conductors Secure Coveted Posts

February 1, 2019 | Nicholas Beard, Musical America
Lee Mills [pictured], resident conductor of the Brazilian Symphony and recipient of two Solti Foundation career grants, is to be associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony starting in 2019-20, also Thomas Dausgaard’s first season as music … » Read
 

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Sanford Sylvan Dies at 65

January 31, 2019 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Baritone Sanford Sylvan died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. His death was confirmed to NPR by his mother Leonore Sylvan, sister Gwen Sylvan, and brother Seth Sylvan. He was 65 and died, suddenly, of what his family has said were “natural … » Read
 

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David Daniels Arrested

January 30, 2019 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Countertenor and University of Michigan faculty member David Daniels was arrested yesterday in Ann Arbor, MI, along with his husband, Scott Walters. They face extradition to Texas, where they have been accused by one Samuel Schultz of rape, eight … » Read
 

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Colorado Fest Names New Music Director

January 31, 2019 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Peter Oundjian is to be the next music director of the Colorado Music Festival. He comes to the post after having served as artistic advisor last summer, an experience that he apparently found favorable. Oundjian is the former longtime music … » Read
 

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Orchestre National de France Hires Dutoit: 'Shameful'

January 31, 2019 | Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, who has faced multiple accusations of sexual assault, will conduct a concert for the National Orchestra of France on Sunday, his highest profile performance since the allegations were first … » Read
 

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OPERA America Marketing Chief to Exit

January 29, 2019 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Patricia Kiernan Johnson, OPERA America’s director of marketing and communications for the last ten years, is making a swift transition. She leaves the New York-based trade group this week and starts at the Curtis Institute of Music on … » Read
 
 

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