Singers are complaining that the ‘Paris Opera Awards‘, which has failed to award prizes for the past three years, has announced a new round for November.
One disappointed contestant writes: ‘I applied (to) this competition 2015 and they sent me mail in January 2016 that I was not chosen for the big final. That is of course OK, But I learned that after that they did not actually do any final! They get all the application fees from the singers and they even did not publish who won the prizes 2015 and 2016!’
The cost of application is 45 Euros.
According to the website, the last prizes were awarded in 2014.
Singers are advised to take care before entering.
If you’ve had experience of this competition, do let us know.
The plan to blast advanced modernism at Hermannstrasse station in order to drive away layabouts has been blown off track after 300 people attended a new music festival there this weekend.
Overnight, Berlin drug dealers were heard whistling Webern’s opus 27 as they measured out a toke and iTunes almost crashed over demand for Schoenberg’s fourth string quartet.
As if…. What killed the scheme was a protest from objection from the all-powerful German Music Council which said in a statement: ‘This attempt of instrumentalizing music in public space is unspeakable.’
So we guess it won’t happen.
The good Volk of Garmisch-Partenkirchen do not want Hermann Levi, premiere conductor of Parsifal, to remain in their midst, in the town where he died.
Agreement has now been reached to transfer Levi’s remains to the Jewish cemetery in Munich, where Levi was music director at King Ludwig’s court.
It’s a shabby end for a dignified man who coped with Wagner’s antisemitism in his lifetime and its legacy ever after.
The pianist, 77, has let it be known that she is not available to play in the United States, following #MeToo accusations against her ex-husband Charles Dutoit.
Instead, Martha is expanding her performances south of the equator. Last night she played in Cordoba, Argentina, for the first time in 14 years, accompanied by her daughter Annie Dutoit as narrator.
At 6:28 in the finale of Sibelius’s second symphony, the conductor got so carried away that his stick took flight and he was left waving both hands.
Not for long, however.
Watch.
A fascinating piece of London programming by the rising Juro:
Weds November 8
Life out of death
Czech music with the Borodin Quartet
7:30 PM, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON
Klein Partita for Strings Schulhoff Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra* Martinů Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra* Janáček Sinfonietta
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Borodin Quartet* London Philharmonic Orchestra
