The arrangement of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as the official European Union anthem was made in 1989 by the French composer Claude Langevin, who died on September 8 at the age of 87.
Langevin also wrote, on commission from Brussels, a Europa Sinfonia and a Symphonie Liberté.
The Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra has chosen Miranda Liu, a Liszt Academy graduate, as its new concertmaster.
Miranda, a US citizen, is just 19.
She says: ‘Izgatottan jelentem be, hogy múlt kedden a Concerto Budapest Szimfonikus Zenekar koncertmesterévé neveztek ki! Büszke vagyok arra, hogy ilyen nagy kaliberű muzsikusokkal dolgozhatok együtt, és várom a csodálatos zenét, a jövőbeli közös koncerteket Magyarországon és külföldön. Még egy álmom vált valóra!
(I’m elated to announce that last Tuesday, I was appointed Concertmaster of the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra!!! I’m very excited to work and perform together in Hungary and abroad with some of the most respected and accomplished musicians around! Another dream come true.)’
New York, NY (September 13, 2016) – Nine orchestra administrators will participate in the League of American Orchestras’ Emerging Leaders Program. Viewed by the field as one of the best sources of identifying talented administrators with great leadership potential, the program is the flagship of the League’s leadership development offerings.
The 2016-17 Emerging Leaders Program participants are:
Nora Brady, Associate Director, Sales and Marketing, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Benjamin Cadwallader, Executive Director, Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Susan Lape, Executive Director, Lake Forest Symphony
Elisabeth Madeja, Director of Marketing, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Renfro, Orchestra Personnel and Operations Manager, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Kathryn Rudolph, Director of Education and Community Engagement, Jacksonville Symphony
Amanda Stringer, CEO, Tallahassee Symphony OrchestraJodi Weisfield, Vice President of Development, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Randy Wong, Executive Director, Hawaii Youth Symphony
Note that four are already CEOs.
We hear from pals in the Vienna Philharmonic that Sophie Dartigalongue, a bassoonist snatched from the Berlin Phil, has passed her year’s trial with flying colours – on a unanimous vote of the players.
She is now officially principal bassoon of the Vienna opera orchestra.
In three years’ time she will become a full member of the Vienna Phil, another small step towards gender balance.
The violinist and ensemble director has been awarded Japan’s 2016 Praemium Imperiale, sometimes called the Nobel Prize for the arts.
He shares this year’s prize with the film director Martin Scorsese.
The prize is worth 15 million Yen, around 130.000 Euros.
John Lambros, who died on Thursday in Charleston, was concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra – renamed the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra – for longer than anyone can remember.
In all he played in the first violins for 55 years – and goes straight into the Slipped Disc list of longest serving orchestral musicians.
Soundcloud, the struggling music database, is offering one quarter’s subscription to 135 million tracks for less than a dollar.
Check here.
The visiting Italian company is giving an ad hoc performance at 2pm today in Moscow’s GUM store.
Not a bad idea, since the former shopping preserve of Soviet nomenklatura wives closely resembles one of Franco Zeffirelli’s sets at La Scala.
The elegant and often innovation record label Naive has run out of time.
It was put into administration last month, and bought out by a digital distribution firm, Believe.
About half the work force, 25 staff, will keep their jobs. t remains to be seen whether there will be continued production after the current season’s releases are put out.
Naive was founded in 1997 by ex-Virgin France chief Patrick Zelnick and caught the eye with striking design and a fresh stream of mostly French and Francophone artists, among them Lisa de la Salle, Anne Gastinel and the Diotima Quartet.
“Naïve, maison d’artistes” / Film réalisé pour les 10 ans du label NAIVE from François Le Nouëne on Vimeo.
