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Canada Conductor Adds Florida Orchestra

April 18, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
In his first leadership post in the U.S., conductor Alexander Shelley is to be artistic and music director of Artis—Naples,  that unusual partnership between the Naples (FL) Philharmonic and its next-door neighbor, the Baker Museum. … » Read
 

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A New Opera In and About Darkness

April 18, 2023 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
For seven years Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman in North Carolina, hid from her abusive enslaver in an attic space that measured 9-feet long by 7- feet wide and 3- feet high. With only a small peephole to let in light, she sweltered in the … » Read
 

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Richmond Symphony Musicians Dress for Success

April 18, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
When Valentina Peleggi, music director of the Richmond Symphony, mounted the podium on April 1 to conduct George Walker’s Icarus in Orbit and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , she and her musicians debuted a new, custom-designed … » Read
 

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Lincoln Center Announces Summer 2023 Programs

April 18, 2023 | Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP)—Lincoln Center will hold its second Summer for the City festival June 14 to Aug. 12. The large disco ball and dance floor will return. The event currently is set to include 193 events, including 50 on the plaza dance floor, 37 … » Read
 

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Aix Easter Fest Part I: The Stars Duly Align Save One

April 17, 2023 | Mark Valencia, Musical America
AIX-EN-PROVENCE—While summer here has long been synonymous with great opera, for the past ten years a second festival has joined its elder brother and become an indelible fixture on the springtime calendar. The Aix Easter Festival has fast … » Read
 

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Two Months from Curtain Up, CC Opera and AGMA Are Still at Odds

April 17, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
To allay fears that its summer festival may not go ahead as planned, June 24-August 6, Central City Opera has issued a press release stating that it is continuing to “negotiate in good faith” with AGMA, even after five months of … » Read
 

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Israel Phil Hires Longtime Gergiev Ass't for Key Artistic Post

April 17, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Israel Philharmonic has named Alisa Meves as its new head of artistic operations. Meves served as personal assistant to Valery Gergiev for some three decades. Gergiev, it will be recalled, is a close friend and supporter of Vladimir Putin and … » Read
 

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Slow to Issue Visas, UK Hinders Ukrainian Concerts

April 17, 2023 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
When the Khmelnitsky Orchestra performed its Harry Potter show on a tour of Belgium last year, the deputy British ambassador in Brussels praised it as “an incredible honor to have such an iconic part of British culture being performed by a … » Read
 

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Judging Criteria for the Upcoming Azrieli Prize

April 17, 2023 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
May 5, 2023 is the deadline for composers submitting to the Azrieli Music Prizes. Awarded every two years in four categories—commissions for International Music, Jewish Music, and Canadian Music as well as the Jewish Music Prize—each … » Read
 

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Philly Pops Sues the Kimmel Center

April 14, 2023 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
In the latest chapter of the life and death of the Philly Pops, the group has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc. alleging that POKC is trying to put the Pops out of business. POKC, it will be … » Read
 
 

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