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The leading orchestra in the ancient city of Jerusalem is living what may be its final days. A year short of its 70th anniversary, the Jerusalem Symphony ...For the past two and a half years, she has been concertmaster of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, among the most distinguished cultural institutions...
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Erik Schumann, a rising 25-year-old violinist from Germany, had been expecting a career landmark. He was scheduled to make his Philadelphia Orchestra debut playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto at the second concert of the Orchestra's first residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Schumann's visa application was one of many caught in the notorious processing backlog at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; by Saturday (July 7), one day before the concert and the last possible day he could depart, he had not received his visa to perform in the U.S. See all stories on this topic | PlaybillArts - New York,NY,USA | OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Régine Crespin (23 February 1927, Marseille – 5 July 2007, Paris)
She was a French operatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire. Crespin, was the most important French soprano to conquer the demanding roles of Wagner, Verdi, and French opera during the second half of the twentieth century...
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German city of Eisenach is now launching a campaign to publicise its association with the most famous of all baroque musicians...JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH... after decades during which the composer was hijacked by various ideologies, including nazism and communism. It rankles with the Eisenachers that his name is so little associated with the place. "You hear the name Salzburg, and you immediately think of Mozart," said the museum's marketing manager Silvia Hochkirch. "My life's aim is to ensure that Eisenach is one day similarly connected in minds across the world with Bach."
The famed tenor's work on the recording of classical religious music should be finished by the end of August or September, his London-based manager, Terri Robson, said Tuesday in a telephone interview. => Read more! Starpulse News Blog | ...MORE... | Pavarotti on CDs
Details about the 2007 Karl Haas Prize for Music Education awarded toThe Karl Haas Prize for Music Education is the evolution of the Lifetime Achievement Awards given by the Klassix Society, the official friends organization of 88.7KXMS/Fine Arts Radio International* as one of two Fine Arts Radio International Awards. ...MORE...
Brooklyn, NY, May 25, 1929 — Manhattan, NY, July, 2, 2007
Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday [2 JUL 2007] of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. Born Belle Miriam Silverman in Brooklyn, the coloratura soprano made her opera debut in 1947 in Philadelphia in a bit role in "Carmen." She became a star with the smaller New York City Opera, where she first performed in 1955 in Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Die Fledermaus." She was acclaimed for performances in such operas as Douglas Moore's "The Ballad of Baby Doe," Massenet's "Manon" and Handel's "Giulio Cesare." She didn't appear at the Met until 1975, shortly before her retirement from singing, which made it surprising when the Met asked her to sit on its board in 2002.
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Pianist MATTHEW KENNEDY found his calling sharing music with world... Film honors Jubilee Singers director.
In the aftermath of a documentary film his daughter created, Kennedy's accomplishments are finding their place in history on film. Matthew Kennedy: One Man's Journey tells the story of a man who in the 1940s was known worldwide as a classical concert pianist — garnering rave reviews in France, Canada and Italy — but remained largely unknown back home.
When his teacher in Americus taught him all she knew, she referred him to a teacher in Macon, who persuaded his mother to move him to New York and try to get him into Juilliard. After graduating with a Juilliard piano diploma in 1940, he entered Fisk that same year and began touring with the Fisk Jubilee Singers... Beverly Keel story
From birth, pianist Jonathan Biss lived in a world of music. His mother, the Romanian-born Miriam Fried, is a globe-trotting violinist who also performs and records with the Mendelssohn String Quartet. His father, violinist Paul Biss, teaches at Indiana University's prestigious School of Music in Bloomington, where Jonathan spent his childhood. Furthermore, his grandmother, the acclaimed Raya Garbousova, earned the highest praise from legendary cellist-conductor Pablo Casals, who called her the "finest cellist" he had ever heard. Samuel Barber wrote his cello concerto for her, and she performed its world premiere in 1946. Chicago Sun-Times | GOOGLE: Biss | Biss on CDs
King was a noted champion of obscure clarinet works of the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly those of Bernhard Crusell, Franz Krommer, Louis Spohr, Carl Stamitz and Carl Maria von Weber. An accomplished pianist, she won a piano scholarship to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she was a pupil of Arthur Alexander and clarinetist Frederick Thurston. "In those days it helped if you played two instruments, however poorly," The Daily Telegraph quoted her once saying. At the piano King often accompanied her clarinetist peers, including Gervase de Peyer and Colin Davis. 
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