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Dudamel's 'Rite' leaves something left Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:21PMThere is really no such thing as a bad performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." In theory, maybe. But I don't recall ever hearing one, by a professional orchestra. The piece seems to invariably create its thrill and chills, no matter who is...
Sony Music is the Vienna Philharmonic's New Partner for the New Year's Concert Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:27AMNEW YORK , Aug. 31 The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts are the world's most watched classical events. Starting in January 2012 , the concert recordings will appear on Sony Classical.
Sony Music is the Vienna Philharmonic's New Partner for the New Year's Concert Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:00AMThe Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts are the world's most watched classical events. Starting in January 2012, the concert recordings will appear on Sony Classical. The contract, signed last week in Salzburg, encompasses releases on CD, DVD and Blu-ray.
Carried away with enchantment Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 4:21PM'Go with me to an enchanted kingdom of urban knights, metropolitan magicians, and sparkling fairies. There you may find the handbag which can contain all of your secrets.' So opens Laura Rosnovsky's catalog of handbags.
Concert off-season has its pleasures Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 9:15PMThe contours of the classical concert season change from year to year as presenters experiment with the best and worst times to present concerts.
Tenor Andrea Bocelli to make Met debut Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:04PMChart-topping Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera House next year for the first time, The Met said Monday.[...]
TV Today Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 12:16AMThe Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 p.m., NBC10) - Actress Pamela Anderson discusses her new fragrance. The Oprah Winfrey Show (4 p.m., 6ABC) - Drew Pinsky discusses sex addiction and his reality series.
TV Best Bets Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 5:00AMFrontline, 9 p.m., Channels 48 and 16. Bleeding from a gun shot, Henry Glover needed quick aid. The hospital was too far away; his brother and a passer-by took him to a compound police had set up after Hurricane Katrina. Then came fierce after-shocks.
'Frontline' explores Hurricane Katrina aftershocks Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:36AMTONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: 'Frontline,' 9 p.m., PBS.
Philharmonic concert tops big night of TV Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:19AM"Great Performances" brightens the summer night with some great music in a great setting, as it offers the annual "Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert" (PBS, tonight, 7 p.m.). Performed in the gardens of Austria's Schonbrunn Palace, the celestial-themed concert includes Gustav Holst's "The Planets" and John Williams' "Star Wars" theme. Even if you don't want to watch, this is one night you ...
Confronting ghosts of Cooperstown Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:30AMAs summer winds down, “Ghost Hunters” (8 p.m., Syfy) returns with a sixth season of new episodes. Tonight, Jason, Grant and the rest of the Atlantic Paranormal Society travel to Cooperstown, N.Y., home to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s also the location of the century-old Otesaga Hotel, a grand vacation spot that has been owned by the same family for its entire existence.
Daily Planner: Wednesday Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:14PMRoute 422 (West Shore Bypass) eastbound at Interstate 176: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Route 422, Third Street/Route 419 in Womelsdorf to Hill Road in Heidelberg Township: around the clock.
TV Pick: new season of 'Ghost Hunters' Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 9:05PMJason Hawes, Grant Wilson and the rest of the TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) return for a new season with an exploration in a haunted...
Andrea Bocelli to make NY Met debut Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:08PMNEW YORK -- Chart-topping Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House next year for the first time, The Met said on Monday.
TV Junkie: The Week In TV; Stan Chambers Retires; Yo Gabba Gabba Live on Tour Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 5:09PMKTLA newsman Stan Chambers is retired on August 11th after more than 60 years on the air. KTLA airs a special on his service tonight at 8pm. Congratulations and thank you Stan! The Condensed Version Because this is a very slow week TV-wise we're condensing our highlights and picks through Thursday in this post. Also, we need a little break before we ramp up to cover the 62nd annual Primetime ...
Sir Colin Davis Conducts Mozart's Overture to "Cosi fan tutte" Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 1:00PM"Cosi fan tutte (Thus Do They All or The School for Lovers)" is an opera written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his last frenetic year of creative life. The opera premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on January 26,1790 and was popular for most of the rest of the 18th and early 19th centuries before it was decided to be way too racy to be put on the stage. The topic was one that offended ...
Sir Colin Davis Conducts Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" Overture Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 8:15AMThe train is on the tracks and the engineer is set to go! All aboard! "Cosi fan tutte (Thus Do They All or The School for Lovers)" is an opera written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his last frenetic year of creative life. The opera premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on January 26,1790 and was popular for most of the rest of the 18th and early 19th centuries before it was decided to be ...
Music Review: Lang Lang - Live in Vienna Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 4:02PMLang Lang plays Beethoven live in Vienna Vienna - Austria - Provinces - Lang Lang - Arts and Entertainment
Inaugural manoeuvres of new orchestras Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 9:00AMLAST Wednesday night in a house at Sydney's Point Piper, a new orchestra was launched.
Classical works of genius Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 4:17PMFew works of music have attained the magnitude of Beethoven's final masterpiece. Completed in 1824 - when the composer was completely deaf - Beethoven's Ninth remains one of the most widely heard and admired symphonies in the entire Western tradition.
Muti, fighting for his art Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 4:01AMAt T minus one month and counting, Riccardo Muti is spending a lot of time preparing for his new position as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has built in some downtime next month, but he's also fulfilling longstanding commitments such as a Brahms Requiem in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sept. 2, and keeping up historic institutional relationships, especially here in this historic ...
MoMA to Present a Weeklong Run of Goran Paskaljevic's Honeymoons Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 11:03PMHoneymoons. Serbia/Albania/Italy. 2009. Produced and directed by Goran Paskaljevic. Pictured: Nebojsa Milovanovic and Jelena Trkulja. Courtesy NOVA FILM (Belgrade), BEOGRAD FILM (Belgrade) and SKA-NDAL (Tirana).
Cleveland Orchestra packs its bags for musical journey across Europe Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ 11:11PMThe journey, beginning Tuesday, will take the orchestra to two of the continent's most famous music festivals and mark the ninth such trip undertaken by the orchestra with music director Franz Welser-Möst.
Armstrong Foundation concert series to launch Sept. 5 Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ 5:01PMThe Armstrong Foundation is putting the finishing touches on a new 823-seat concert hall that will be inaugurated Sept. 5.
Glendale Symphony garners temp deal for new conductor Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 8:36PMIranian-born Loris Tjeknavorian has led groups in Vienna, London. GLENDALE — The struggling Glendale Symphony Orchestra has inked a temporary deal with an internationally-renowned conductor ahead of what the organization hopes will be a more long-term contract, officials said Tuesday.
Strauss' "Elektra' batters ear-drums at Salzburg Festival Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 8:51AMSALZBURG, Austria (AFP) - What better way for the Salzburg festival to celebrate its 90th anniversary than with a new production of an opera by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, two of the festival's founders.
Operatunity calls all romantics! Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 12:18AMOperatunity calls all romantics! The concert features soprano Susan Boland, tenor John Cameron, world famous in New Zealand tenor Benjamin Fifita Makisi, baritone Orene Tiai, and pianist Alex Wiltshire.
New conductors for BBC orchestra Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 5:15AMAmerica's Keith Lockhart and Austria's Johannes Wildner are made principal conductor and principal guest conductor with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
New conductors for BBC orchestra Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 5:02AMAmerica's Keith Lockhart is appointed principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Patricia Petibon Stars as the Seductress Lulu Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 10:41PMFrom the Bulgarian director Vera Nemirova and her production team, a daring staging of “Lulu” at the Salzburg Festival.
Mansouri's candid memoir on S.F. Opera Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 2:36AMThey say everyone has at least one book in them, but most of them aren't as lively and provocative as the new memoir by Lotfi Mansouri, the San Francisco Opera's former general director. "Lotfi Mansouri: An Operatic Journey," written with Donald Arthur and... San Francisco Opera - Lotfi Mansouri - United States - Film director - California
Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 5:53PMThe Salzburg Festival is honoring a major living composer, Wolfgang Rihm, with a premiere of his work “Dionysus” and a program called Kontinent Rihm, which opened on Tuesday.
Acclaimed international musicians at Culture’s Crusades this fall Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:00PMClassical music lovers will have the opportunity to watch some of today’s biggest names in music perform at the Athenaeum, in a project entitled ‘Culture’s Crusades’ initiated by ArtEst Foundation.
Classical review: Chamber Music Northwest closes with nods to future and past Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 8:32PMChamber Music Northwest unites generations of both young and veteran musicians.
Classical music venues: Not for the faint-hearted Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 6:20PMIn the corridor outside door H, I was on the floor and a helpful usher was fetching the Royal Albert Hall medic. In the auditorium, the Prom from which I had extracted myself, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was in full swing. I feared the emphasis might yet fall on the word "die".
Arts, Media & Culture News with 'tude Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 8:57AMOn October 16, 2000, the Austrian Federal Government signed a contract with the Vienna Philharmonic that gave the orchestra yearly funding of $2.91 million (€2.29 million) for a period of 10 years.
Victor Hochhauser: 'My great stroke of luck came when Stalin died' Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 5:27AMThe impresario, now 87, talks to Nicholas Wroe At a time of arts funding cuts, the subsidy-heavy activities of opera and ballet always come under particular scrutiny. But the arrival of the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera at Covent Garden this weekend not only comes at no cost to the taxpayer, it might even generate a little income for the Royal Opera House. "The new Nureyev", 21-year-old Ivan Vasiliev ...
Bulgaria's Plovdiv, Russe Protest Local Operas Cut Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 10:11AMMunicipal authorities in Bulgarian cities of Plovdiv and Russe have stood Monday in support of local operas and philharmonic societies, which are facing a cut-down as a part of reforms advanced by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.
Bulgaria's Plovdiv, Russe Protest Local Operas Cut Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 10:11AMPlovdiv 's mayor Slavcho Atanasov said that he would lead to Sofia a protest of Plovdiv musicians, artists and other citizens, should he fail to convince Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov to give up a proposal to strip the city's Opera and Philharmonic Society of its opera functions.
Cat Empire sets the stage on fire Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 5:07PMAn Australian singing in French about an American state with a Jamaican rhythm track.
Music Box: Crowded Streets headlines at Rams Head Live! tomorrow night Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 8:52AMRams Head Live! in Baltimore presents Crowded Streets, the excellent Dave Matthews tribute band, tomorrow night (7 p.m. doors). Also on the bill are the Grilled Lincolns, and Priddy Guitar Academy's Neena & the Aquatic Tourettes (all ages welcome, tickets just $12).
QPO soloists to perform baroque music Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 5:09PMThe Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) will hold a programme of baroque music spanning from Handel to Vivaldi, Bach and Albinoni on July 13 (Tuesday) at Aspire Zone Ladies Club at 7.30pm, an official said.
Candidates enter stage right Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 11:30AMWork Less Party mayoral candidate Betty Krawczyk brings her Louisiana-style tap dancing skills to the Creative City Cabaret.
Cesare Siepi, Renowned Italian Opera Singer, Dies at 87 Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 11:37PMMr. Siepi was a classic Italian basso cantante, or “singing bass,” with a warm, slightly dark voice that was ideally suited to Mozart.
Mahler's Greatest Hits, From Klemperer to Abbado, Dudamel: Norman Lebrecht Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 6:14PMThere’s going to be a glut of Gustav Mahler in the year ahead.
Jake and Vienna showdown; N.Y. Philharmonic, other major orchestras hiring - AM entertainment links Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 8:06AMCatch up on some of the top entertainment headlines.
GOLD ANALYSIS Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 3:46AMLast week the Euro surged on the back of a massive wave of short covering on the first trading day of July and a day before US employment data was released.
The Union Street Urban Orchard Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 6:44AM The London Festival of Architecture finished this weekend, but in one part of south London its legacy will linger into late summer. The Union Street Urban Orchard opened two weeks ago, and will welcome the green-fingered until mid-September. A disused spot of land beside a train viaduct in SE1 has been transformed into an orchard and community garden, with rows of plants and fruit ...
Hanging Out (And Up) With Gorilla Circus Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 6:14AMYour super-soaraway troupe (clockwise from left): Debs, Tig, Chris & Ezra. "First one's for fear, second's for fun" The soothing Sunday morning dog-walking calm of leafy Ravenscourt Park is broken by a piercing shriek. No, it's nothing sinister - Londonist is simply flying through the air with the greatest of inner unease courtesy of Gorilla Circus and their outdoor trapeze workshop. The good ...
Pride London 2010 Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 5:29AM On Saturday, loud music, dancing, singing, bright colours, bare flesh and whistles coming from over 130 walking groups and floats filled the streets of the West End and the eyes and ears of onlookers for a good four hours. An estimated one million people gathered to block the streets and bewilder the unsuspecting tourist and shopper who found themselves ...