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Berkshire Choral Taps New Artistic Team
Berkshire Choral International, which offers weeklong summer workshops for amateur choristers in various locales—this year, four in the U.S., one in Vienna-- has announced new artistic leadership. Frank Nemhauser, who has served as music … »
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Easter at Aix, Part II: Standard Fare by Standard Bearers
Half a century ago Pinchas Zukerman was the groovy face of classical music, much as the Aix Easter Festival’s Artistic Director Renaud Capuçon is today. Like the two violinists’ mutual friend Daniel Barenboim, the 75-year-old … »
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Funding Cuts Shorten WNO's Season
The financial challenges stemming from the funding cuts implemented by Arts Councils England and Wales have forced the Welsh National Opera (WNO) to cut performances scheduled for its 2024-25 season. ACE reduced funding to the company by 35 … »
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A New Resident Orchestra in San Antonio
Texas’s Tobin Center has announced The Orchestra of San Antonio (TOSA) as its resident symphony. TOSA is essentially the rebranded Classical Music Institute , an educational and performance organization that had earlier subsumed Chamber … »
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La Scala Taps New Intendant
As per hard-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s directive, foreign heads of Italian opera houses must retire by age 70 . That means Frenchman Dominque Meyer, 68, must soon exit as Intendant at La Scala, despite the fact that the musicians … »
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In Boston, Messiaen's Birds as Raptors
BOSTON—Olivier Messiaen’s massive Turangalila -Symphonie , which on April 11 received its first Boston Symphony Orchestra performance in 24 years, has a special place in the BSO’s history. Commissioned in 1946 by Serge … »
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Anthony Freud's Timely Exit from Lyric Opera of Chicago
By the time he was 14, Anthony Freud had become obsessed with opera and knew he wanted to run an opera company one day. Now, after more than three decades doing just that, he is set to retire after a 13-year stint as general director of Lyric … »
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CIM Announces New Violin Chair
Among departures by star faculty, student accusations of inappropriate behavior and subsequent lawsuits, votes of no confidence, and other such pleasantries, the Cleveland Institute has hardly had an easy time of it in the years since the … »
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Cinci Opera to Stage McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
In 1991 Liverpool native Paul McCartney composed his Liverpool Oratorio in response to a request from the Royal Liverpool Orchestra, then celebrating its 150 th anniversary. Its premiere in the city’s cathedral that year featured soprano … »
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Centuries-old Music Fest Sees Leadership Change
Britain’s annual Three Choirs Festival, which lays claim to being the oldest classical music festival in the world, has announced that Alexis Paterson, its CEO of the last eight years, will exit at the end of this year’s event, July … »
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