Topic: BUSINESS
Carnegie Hall & New York City Center to Form New Partnership; $150m Effort to Renovate City Center ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: BUSINESS
Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will preside over the closing bell to celebrate the Orchestra's endowment campaign crossing the $100 million mark. ...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 1 December 2005
Topic: BUSINESS
A handwritten manuscript for Beethoven's Grosse Fuge sold for #1.1 million (approximately $1.9 million) to an anonymous buyer at the London auction house Sotheby's today, Reuters reports. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
Topic: BUSINESS
Philadelphia's four-year old Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts has sued Rafael Vi?oly Architects, charging that flaws and delays caused by the firm cost it millions, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 30 October 2005
Topic: BUSINESS
What’s it like to work in a profession where your chief competitors have been dead for 250 years yet still control the worldwide market? "It’s a bit like comparing old wine to new," said Bob Brode, a master violin and viola maker. "We appreciate the past, work with it day to day, but it’s kind of frustrating. We’ll never know how good the instrument will sound when it’s really ripe -- 200 years from now." ...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 27 October 2005
Topic: BUSINESS
The port city of Hamburg will boast an imposing new landmark in future: a swanky glass and steel philharmonic concert hall perched above an old cocoa storehouse on the banks of the Elbe river. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: BUSINESS
THREE years after her death, Edith Melva Thompson's dying wish to support opera in Victoria is finally set to be granted - but not before a third of her $1.8million bequest is eaten up by lawyers. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: BUSINESS
The Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Germany, has begun offering concertgoers a chance to bring home a recording of the performance they have just heard ...LINK to complete news story
Monday, 17 October 2005
The Future of Opera on Disc (if It's to Have One) Topic: BUSINESS
FOR several months before releasing its new recording of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," EMI Classics, in tones both momentous and ominous, stoked stories in the news media that it could well be the last studio recording of a major opera ever made. At least EMI refrained from affixing a label to that effect on the packaging of this deluxe release. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: BUSINESS
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and its striking musicians have reached an agreement in principle, both parties announced Sunday.
The 90-odd musicians have been on strike since May in a labour dispute that prompted the orchestra to cancel the first four concerts of its 2005-2006 season.
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Sunday, 16 October 2005
Topic: BUSINESS
An 80-page handwritten manuscript by Beethoven which was missing for 115 years has been put up for auction. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: BUSINESS
For much of the '90s, the main talking point for classical music people was “What's wrong with classical music?” A steady stream of newspaper columns, magazine articles and books by music lovers wallowed in this pity party for the better part of a decade. ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 15 October 2005
Topic: BUSINESS
Crisis in the Recording Industry
CD Sales are down and classical music is losing market share. Read the details...in links at: ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 8 October 2005
Mood: chillin' Topic: BUSINESS An advisory panel composed of over 100 Republican members of the House of Representatives has recommended ending all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The NEA is the federal government's chief source of funding for nonprofit theatre groups, dance companies, and arts presenters. The CPB is a major funder of noncommercial broadcast programming of the performing arts.
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An advisory panel composed of over 100 Republican members of the House of Representatives has recommended ending all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The NEA is the federal government's chief source of funding for nonprofit theatre groups, dance companies, and arts presenters. The CPB is a major funder of noncommercial broadcast programming of the performing arts.
