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Montana Maestro Accused of Bullying

February 5, 2019 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
Matthew Savery, music director of the Bozeman Symphony, is under investigation for a range of allegations. A letter addressed to the symphony’s board and shared with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle calls out Savery for “bullying, … » Read
 

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Tenor Preps for the High Cs of his first Met La Fille

February 5, 2019 | Associated Press
NEW YORK — When Javier Camarena explodes with joy singing nine high C's in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment , there's a good chance the Metropolitan Opera audience will explode right back at him with demands for an encore. "I will be very … » Read
 

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A Sanford Sylvan Mentee Honors His Teacher in Recital Debut

February 4, 2019 | Clive Paget, Musical America
These days, it’s an ever-increasing challenge to be noticed, and young singers are no exception. It has to be said, however, that young Polish countertenor, Jakub Jósef Orlinski has more than a few advantages to make him stand out … » Read
 

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Paris Audience Welcomes Dutoit with 'Repeated Ovations'

February 4, 2019 | Associated Press
PARIS—Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit returned to a major world stage Sunday for the first time since 10 women accused him of sexual assault and harassment. And he earned repeated ovations from the awed Paris audience. Dutoit, 82, denies … » Read
 

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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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Gilmore in New Partnership with Grand Rapids Symphony

February 4, 2019 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, based in Kalamazoo, MI, has announced that it will be collaborating with the Grand Rapids Symphony (GRS) on its “The Pianist” series of internationally known artists. The first in … » 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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Two Stagings at Opéra de Paris, One Booed, One Lauded

February 1, 2019 | Mark Valencia, Musical America
PARIS—What does Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov have against the French? First Bizet, now Berlioz… Gallic composers inspire him to put their leading characters into analysis. A year on from his hotel-lobby Carmen in … » 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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