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That little violin store on the prairie
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (345+ words) Harry Sanders, who died this week, aged 59, was a chronicler of his city, Calgary, capital of Canada’s oil industry. It’s a town of 1.3 million souls with a resident philharmonic orchestra. Musicians used to get their instruments maintained at W A…...
Why can't more commentators be like the Japanese? - Slippedisc
6+ hour, 11+ min ago (212+ words) NHK have purt up a terrific performance of Shehrezade, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. The orchestra is a crack outfit, the soloists first-rate and the dramatic tension just grown and grows. But what intrigued me most was the tone of the…...
New boss at Lincoln Center
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (91+ words) Weston Sprott has been chosen as the new Executive Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. For the past seven years he has been Dean and Director of the Preparatory Division at the Juilliard School, not usually a stepping stone to…...
Woeful shakeout at London's South Bank
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (162+ words) Anti-colonialist chairman Misan Harriman is being ousted in the next few days. Entertainment lawyer Libby Savill, his deputy, will step up as chair. Two new governors – Maria Balshaw and Roxana Mirica – add nothing to the centre’s primary need: a recommitment…...
Juanjo Mena lays down the baton
3+ day, 22+ min ago (101+ words) The Spanish conductor has retired permanently after an acceleration of his Alzheimers condition, reports scherzo.es. Mena, who will be 61 his month, made his illness known in March last year. Sources say he has recently taken a rapid turn for…...
Berlin Phil horn gets agency
3+ day, 35+ min ago (59+ words) AskonasHolt has signed Stefan Dohr, solo horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. Dohr, 61 this week, will be engaged in post-Phil planning. The orchestra has a strict retirement policy. Dohr has been principal horn since 1993. Robert Ames was joint founder of the…...
Conductor steps back in New Zealand
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (92+ words) The Auckland Philharmonia has informed us that its music director, Giordano Bellincampi, will become Laureate in 2027 afte 12 years in the position. Bellincampi, 61, is an Italian who moved to Denmark and made his way as a player in the Royal Danish…...
Bayreuth's Senta jumps ship
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (64+ words) The Norwegian soprano Elisabeth Teige has left Hilbert Artist Management after just three years to jpin AskonasHolt. Teige, 45, will be singing Wagner roles this season in Amsterdam, Munich and Madrid. She sang Senta in Bayreuth’s Flying Dutchman this summer. Robert…...
They would like these pedigree violins to go to working musicians
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (180+ words) The instrument dealer Andrew Hooker, former director of Sotheby’s musical instruments department, went on to ply his trade independently from a converted church in Rode, Somerset. Andrew died suddenly in January this year. His remaining stock of instruments and bows,…...
All you need to know about Barenboim's new Berlin festival
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (73+ words) The website for the November event has just gone live. The festival is funded by a new entity, the Daniel Barenboim Stiftung, with a LinkedIn logo (pictured). There is also an appeal for financial support: So it’s Kumbaya all over…...