Statement from the Metropolitan Opera:
WEATHER UPDATE: Tonight’s performance of La Traviata will go ahead as planned. The Met’s Customer Care Department is closed today due to the severe weather conditions. If you are unable to attend this evening’s performance of La Traviata due to the inclement weather, please feel free to contact us beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, March 15, and we will be happy to assist with ticketing you for a future performance, subject to availability, during the season.
Please be aware that we anticipate heavy call volumes tomorrow, so if you have difficulties reaching us, you can call at any time up to April 30, 2017, to secure your performance. Our phone hours are Monday through Saturday, from 10am to 8pm, and Sunday, from noon to 6pm, at 212-362-6000. Thank you.
The designated director of the Vienna State Opera has been accused of taking parts of his university dissertation from another writer, whom he failed to acknowledge.
The University of Vienna has been notified by an investigator that sections of Roscic’s paper appear to be taken from a doctoral thesis on Theodor Adorno by a Marxist activist, Peter Decker.
Roscic, 52, has issued a statement to the Austrian press agency: ‘I met Mr. Decker personally 35 years ago, worked with him on different cultural-scientific topics and learned from him the decisive points about Critical Theory… I cannot reconstruct the details after 30 years. I am in touch with the University of Vienna…’
The minister of culture, Thomas Drozda, who appointed Roscic controversially to the Vienna Opera, acknowledges that he has been made aware of the accusation.
This could have serious consequences.
More here.
According to a Figaro feature, she has become the Betty Boop of the piano.
Well, someone had to be…
photo (c) Jean- Baptiste Mondino
Musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra gave a Sunday benefit concert at Rudolf Steiner School on East 79th Street on behalf of a group of young people who are suing the federal government over climate change.
‘We’re looking to get out in the community and do broader outreach within New York City,’ said clarinet player Jessica Phillips. ‘We’re not political activists, but we also believe in children and their future.’
Report here.
Happily, there were a pair of luthiers in the audience…
Watch the video.
Katherine Balch, 25, a PhD student at Columbia, is the new composer in residence at the California Symphony.
It’s a good jumpboard. Previous residencies have been held by Kamran Ince (1991-92), Christopher Theofanidis (1994-96), Kevin Puts (1996-99), Pierre Jalbert (1999-2002), Kevin Beavers (2002-05), Mason Bates (2007-10), D.J. Sparr (2011-14), and Dan Visconti (2011-17).
Balch, originally from San Diego, has received commissions from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, FLUX Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and more.
This summer, 46 pianists, violinists, violists, cellists and singers, aged 14 to 30, have been picked from 18 countries.
See if you’re among them here.
Two people were getting out of a taxi near the Intercontinental Hotel at one in the morning on Sunday when a second taxi drove into them.
One man was killed on the spot, a second person was fatally injured.
The first casualty has been unofficially identified as Gordon Murray, 68, a Canadian professor of harpsichord at Vienna’s university of music and performing arts.
The second fatality was their guest, Alice Rutherford, a visitor from Britain, aged 89. She died later in hospital.
Gordon Murray, a student of Marie-Claire Alain, worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and other early music leaders while developing his academic career. He made recordings of Bach, Scarlatti and Schütz.
