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New: La Scena Musicale Blog My recent book, The Life and Death of Classical Music, contains an analysis of the 20 worst classical records ever made. Colin Larkin (see press release below) has appended the 100 worst pop records to his outstanding and important Encyclopedia of Popular Music, which goes online from next week (see below once more).
The Lebrecht Weekly - Latest Web Article They are choosing the carpet when I arrive, a magnificent hand-made
Afghan whose rusted reds and vanilla clays will dull the sheen of
brand-new marble. This is the reception area of Kings Place, London’s
new £100 million office development with super-low carbon emissions and
an education outreach programme for poor folk in the council flats
opposite who, on a fine day, will get to watch the business classes
sunning it with Chablis in open-air bars on the redeveloped canal-side
banks.
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2008-05-17
Open letter from Alain Trudel, CBC Radio Orchestra (Letters, Alain Trudel - Stand On Guard For CBC) CBC Radio has announced two new music shows for CBC Radio Two. (News, CBC ) Winding up the season (Review, Bradley Bambarger - Star-Ledger) A key to the music (Article, Marc Shulgold - Rocky Mountain News) Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra timpanist Adams shows versatility (Review, Burkhardt Reiter - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ) National Symphony Orchestra Pops With Dave Koz (Review, Stephen Brookes - Washington Post) Waiting for an encore (Article, Jeffrey Sheban - Columbus Dispatch) Litton's National Arts Centre Orchestra show offered lyricism, silliness (Review, Richard Todd - Ottawa Citizen) Detroit Symphony Orchestra trusts Wigglesworth with Mahler 9 and he delivers (Review, Mark Stryker - Detroit Free Press) Beethoven frames Ades' rich concerto (Review, Tim Smith - Baltimore Sun) Orchestra members form a running ensemble (News, Zachary Lewis and Pat Galbincea - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)) Guest conductor Osmo Vänskä dazzles with Cleveland Orchestra (Review, Donald Rosenberg - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)) Orchestra founder to bow out (Article, Cindy Hudson - Oregonian) Classical CDs of the week: Tchaikovsky, Britten and more... (CD Review, The Telegraph) Cellist, orchestra agree to disagree (News, Arthur Kaptainis - Montreal Gazette) In good hands (Article, Andrew Clark - Financial Times) Symphony shows 2 Brahms facets (Review, Joshua Kosman - San Francisco Chronicle) A traveling festival comes back to town, this time with a new slate of works (Review, Allan Kozinn - New York Times) 2008-05-16
Cultural Life: Alice Coote, Opera Singer (Interview, Charlotte Cripps - The Independent) Opera Pacific makes the case for 'Susannah' (Review, Timothy Mangan - Orange County Register) Los Angeles Opera accessorizes 'Tosca' revival with Maria Callas' jewelry (Article, David Ng - Los Angeles Times) Opera Pacific's 'Susannah' (Review, Mark Swed - Los Angeles Times) Opera Director Runs Naked, Swells Cut Deals at Glyndebourne (Article, Warwick Thompson - Bloomberg) New board for symphony (News, Joanne Paulson - Star Phoenix) CBC decision strikes discord (Letters, Penny Essex - Peace Arch News) Shakespeare set to music (Article, Joyce Kam - The Standard) Eschenbach reflects on five years as musical direrctor (Interview, Tom Di Nardo - Philadelphia Daily News) Anna Netrebko/Rolando Villazon: La Boheme (Review, Geoff Brown - Times Online) He appears to have robotic self-discipline. But inside, Brown is a ferment of emotion (Article, Dominic Lawson - The Independent) Muti deal shows it's never wise to settle (Article, Bill Gowen - Daily Herald) Classical approach to Eagles' music (Article, Bradley Bambarger - Star-Ledger) Cellist reveals soul of great composers (Review, Barbara Zuck - Columbus Dispatch) American String Project hits all the right notes (Review, R.M. Campbell - Seattle Post-Intelligencer) For sisters, chamber music performance is family affair (Article, Sarah Hoover - Baltimore Sun) Prague's soundtrack factory (Article, Beth Potter - Christian Science Monitor) Chorale, orchestra find beauty in songs of lament (Review, William Randall - Star Tribune) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: what a fabulous final flourish (Review, Geoffrey Norris - The Telegraph) Monteverdi's Poppea - 'It's the sexiest piece ever written' (Interview, Martin Kettle - Guardian Unlimited) Shaping a work that has returned to fashion (Review, Allan Kozinn - New York Times) A Brahms Piano Quartet, with no strings attached (Review, Vivien Schweitzer - New York Times) More... More News in French To submit an article,info@scena.org
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