‘The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period,’ says today’s proposal.
CPB feeds federal funding to PBS and National Public Radio stations. Without it, many will go out of business.
ClassicalMusicNews.ru reports that Aeroflot is about to tighten cabin restrictions, starting on Thursday, February 15.
No musical instrument cases will be allowed into the cabin.
Instruments will be treated as hold luggage, with no special treatment. If they exceed the passenger’s free baggage allowance, an overweight charge will be imposed.
Aeroflot is 51 percent state owned.
UPDATE: You an sign a change petition here.
Two group members are stepping down in the jubilee year.
I’m writing to tell you all some news. After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to make 2018 my last
year as a member of The King’s Singers. It’s not a decision I came to lightly but the time feels
right. It’s been an honour to be in this incredible ensemble, and by the time I leave at the end
of December, I will have been a part of it for 10 years. I always wanted to leave the group on
a high and it doesn’t get much more of a high than at the end of the 50th anniversary! I love
the group, I always have and always will. I will always be a huge supporter of ‘the chaps’
going forward and will keep a keen eye on their amazing experiences around the world.
press release:
Wigmore Hall’s choir for families living with dementia Singing with Friends will this evening perform a very special concert at Buckingham Palace.
The event honours Princess Alexandra’s Patronage of Music for Life, Wigmore Hall’s pioneering programme for people living with dementia, as well as that of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir and Alzheimer’s Society.
The four organisations will come together for a unique performance which celebrates the power of music and its ability to enrich the lives of people living with dementia, and their families, friends and carers.
John Gilhooly, who will introduce the concert, said “Tonight we celebrate the power of music and how it can transform lives. A diagnoses of dementia can bring great challenges, but all of our work with these choirs proves that many lives can be enhanced and enriched, and these activities deserve to be recognised and supported.”
About Music for Life
Music for Life is a pioneering programme for people living with dementia and their family friends and carers. The project was founded by Linda Rose in 1993 and has been led by Wigmore Hall since 2009. Over the course of the years the programme has continued to develop from working primarily in care settings to incorporate a growing number of projects and events in community settings and at the Hall itself. We are proud to work in partnership to provide a range of meaningful opportunities for people at all stages of dementia.
We believe that dementia should not stop people from doing the things they love, or from trying new things. With the right support people can live well with dementia, and Wigmore Hall is committed to this goal: helping to build a dementia-friendly society and enabling people living with dementia to continue accessing high quality, life-enriching musical experiences.
Gerald Finley shows how it’s done.
‘It can take 100 to 150 times of repetition to absorb it in my mind, and in muscle memory.’
The mighty Paata Burchuladze is facing police questioning in his home town, Tbilisi, over allegations of embezzlement from his foundation.
Paata, 62, has returned from St Petersburg, where he works at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, to help the investigation.
Aside from the normal presumptions of innocence, there may be a political dimension to these accusations. Paata ran unsuccessfully for president of Georgia in 2016.
A film about Itzhak Perlman, entitled ‘Itzhak’, is scheduled for release next month. It will open March 9 in New York at Landmark Cinema 57th Street and Quad Cinema and March 16 in Los Angeles.
The film is directed by Alison Chernick, previously a visual art documentary maker.
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That’s the second magazine fatality this month, following the closure of Limelight in Australia.
Jean Grout, cellist of the Paris String Trio from 1967 to 1995, passed away this weekend.
The group gave premieres of works by Edison Denisov, Betsy Jolas, Maurice Ohana and many more.
Happy birthday greetings to the inexhaustible opera and film director, resting at his palazzo outside Rome.
We spent an enchanting afternoon together there a few years back, with Franco adding little bits of embroidery to long-familiar memories.
He claimed as a teenage kid to have seen the bodies of Mussolini and Clara Petacci hanging from lampposts in Milan, and then to have climbed atop the mound of rubble that was all that remained of the stage at La Scala.
The author Joseph Horowitz who, by his own count, has ‘written more about Wagner at the Met than any other living human being’, was refused press tickets to Parsifal, the first time in 40 years that he has been excluded.
He thinks it might have something to do with a recent piece he wrote about James Levine.
Right now, Joe is worried that the Met and its Times-puppies are creating a new cult of hero worship around Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The performance (I attended Saturday night) ignited a lusty ovation that peaked when Nezet-Seguin took the stage – and suddenly ended. A response to received opinion.
Our new music director is not yet 45 years old. Whether he grows into the big Wagner works remains to be seen. But I fear that, with the disappearance of Levine, a new cult may already be upon us.
Read on here.
This is the cover of Kian Soltani’s debut disc on DG.
He is pictured with two cellos.
But where is his partner on the album, the pianist Aaron Pilsan?
