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GREAT BARRINGTON —The 35th Aston Magna season ended over the weekend with a post-concert benefit party on the estate for which the concert series is named. The final program at the Daniel Arts Center, "Music of Henry Purcell," had a sign on the door that read "Completely Sold Out." That message, one would think, better suits an event for Harry Potter than Henry Purcell, and great as his 17th-century music is, Purcell was not the name that brought Berkshire's A-list to hear Purcell's music and visit Lee Elman's estate. That name, and that honor, belong to Great Barrington resident Phyllis Curtin, internationally known opera soprano, reigning Tanglewood vocal teacher, pioneering scholar, composers' muse and diva in the most gracious sense. Just putting her name on a tribute did the trick......MORE... GOOGLE LINKS | Aston Magna | Curtin at Amazon.com
The Pittsburgh Symphony, which earlier this year announced its return to commercial recording on the PentaTone label with an upcoming Brahms Symphony cycle, is seeing its efforts go on sale ahead of schedule. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that PentaTone has decided to release the first volume in the set on August 28 rather than wait until the complete cycle is recorded during the coming season.
Violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson and pianist Joseph Kalichstein came together as a trio to perform at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in January of 1977. They've been together as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio ever since, and they've been celebrating their 30th anniversary all year, at the 92nd Street Y (their longtime musical home in New York) and around the country......MORE... Background | Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson at Amazon
The Web site Japan's Classical Music Artists introduces promising local classical artists to the rest of the world in addition to carrying news related to concerts, festivals and competitions......MORE... http://japansclassic.com/top.html
Star tenor Luciano Pavarotti, suffering from cancer, has been hospitalised for tests, a media spokesman at the Modena University Policlinico in northern Italy says. The 71-year-old, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer a year ago and has since had at least five rounds of chemotherapy, was admitted on Tuesday, Gabriele Sorrentino said. The hospital will issue a formal bulletin later in the day ...Reports...http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=pavarotti&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
Faced with the latest in a series of high-profile withdrawals, the two top officials of the Salzburg Festival spoke out in fury and frustration yesterday, one of them saying that the world's most prestigious classical music event is "not a stepping stone.
It's not that Marc-Andre Hamelin tore up the playbook on how to succeed as a classical pianist. It's that he never seems to have read it. After years of low-profile management and critics who pigeonholed him as a "mere" technical wizard, in 2000 Hamelin hired new managers and at age 45 is greeted with astonished cries of "Where has this guy been?"
...MORE... | GOOGLE LINKS | Marc-Andre Hamelin at Amazon.com
When Kathleen Ferrier died from cancer on 8 October, 1953, aged only 41, the English - and indeed the international - musical stage lost one of its greatest-ever natural singing talents. In a career lasting barely more than a decade, she went from being an ordinary Lancashire lass to an international singing star who captivated all who saw her perform. ...MORE...BBC... GOOGLE LINKS | Ferrier at Amazon
His operas sell out immediately. His theories changed classical music. His artistic legacy still divides his warring family. Millions either love him obsessively or hate him passionately......MORE...
GOOGLE LINKS | R Wagner at Amazon
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