Apple is making the music system redundant.
It was always crap f0r classical.
Apple never gave a damn.
Jesse Rosen, President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, is to retire in September 2020.
‘I will have been at the League for twenty-two years and CEO for twelve,’ Rosen told the League’s 74th National Conference in Nashville. ‘I’ve had an enormously fulfilling experience, but it’s time to begin thinking about the next chapter. The orchestra community has been a source of deep satisfaction and joy, and I’d like to remain a part of it in some new and different way.’
Message from MTT’s PR:
Michael Tilson Thomas announced today that he is withdrawing from all engagements beginning June 17 until September 3 in order to undergo a cardiac procedure. The operation, which will take place in Cleveland, is scheduled to follow his performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 with the San Francisco Symphony on June 13, 14, 15, and 16.
“I deeply regret missing concerts and projects that I have been greatly anticipating,” said Tilson Thomas. “On the advice of my doctors, I need to undergo this procedure at this time in continuation of treatment for a heart condition I have managed for many years. I expect to make a full recovery in time to return to the San Francisco Symphony for the opening of my 25th season as Music Director.”
Previously scheduled engagements from which Tilson Thomas is withdrawing are performances with the San Francisco Symphony and appearances at the Music Academy of the West including concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra.
How attractive is this?
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has a created a new loyalty scheme open to all, to reflect current booking trends.
LPO Plus is a free online-only scheme designed to reward the loyalty of music lovers who come to several concerts a year, but who only want to book tickets for one concert at a time.
LPO Plus is an online reward scheme. Points are earned each time an order is placed for eligible items at lpo.org.uk, including concert tickets (excluding multi-buy series bookings), gift vouchers, CDs, merchandise and programme book vouchers. LPO Plus is free to join and new members will automatically receive an initial 100 points. 10 points are earned for every £1, and 1 point for every 10p spent. Each point earned is equal to 1p which can be redeemed against future orders.
The city of Berlin has offered Daniel Barenboim an extension to his contract as Artistic Director and General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. He will stay in post until 2027, when he will be 85 years old.
Barenboim joined the Sattatsoper soon after reunification in 1992.
Today’s announcement was made at a press conference featuring, aside from Barenboim himself, the cultural senator Klaus Lederer, artistic director Matthias Schulz and orchestra leaders Susanne Schergaut and Volker Sprenger.
Maria Antonia Rodríguez, principal flute of Spain’s RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, has been named General Manager of the Orquesta de Navarra in Pamplona.
Rodríguez, 54, has played a prominent role in planning the RTVE’s jubilee season.
Alexander Novopashin, abbot of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Novosibirsk who led a public outcry against a Tannhäuser production, has received an award ‘for counteracting extremism’ from Russia’s federal Anti-Extremism Centre.
The abbot’s agitation led to the dismissal of the Novosibirsk opera chief and the banning of Tannhäuser in Siberia.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the death of Roger Covell, its chief music critic from 1960 to the late 1990s. He was 88.
According to the SMH: Covell’s role as a critic went beyond reviewing. He was a leading voice in the construction of a narrative around the emergence of a confident generation of composers in the 1960s, who drew inspiration from European modernism but wrote in a distinctly Australian voice. His landmark 1967 book, Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society, charted Australian composition from colonial times to what he perceived to be the new creative energy and dynamism of the 1960s.
Chief Conductor Susanna Mälkki has extended her term with the Helsinki Philharmonic to 2023, with an option for a further two-year renewal, taking her to the middle of the next decade.
She has been in charge in Helsinki since 2016.
Radu Lupu has crashed out of Beethoven’s G-major concerto with Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker on Thursday
His replacement will be Maria Joao Pires, who retired two years ago.
Communiqué de presse
Opéra de Lyon, 3 juin 2019
L’Opéra de Lyon va relancer la procédure de recrutement du Directeur Général (HF) de l’Opéra de Lyon, aux termes des auditions qui se sont déroulées courant mai.
Le jury de recrutement a conclu, après examen des projets remis par les candidats présélectionnés et auditions, de ne retenir aucun candidat.
Press Release
Opera of Lyon, June 3, 2019
The Opera of Lyon will revive the recruitment process of the director general (HF) of the opera of Lyon, under the auditions that took place in may.
The Recruitment jury concluded, after reviewing the projects given by the shortlisted candidates and auditions, to hold no candidate.
A new call for application will be relaunched soon for a desired appointment by the fall.
This was the last man in charge, and he was widely loathed.
It appears that American Airlines has dropped its excess baggage charge for checked-in musical instruments.
You used to have to pay $150 for a tuba or a doublebass.
Now, it’s free.
(No guarantee, of course, that it will arrive in one piece.)
