New on the Edinburgh Music Review, Zoë Moskal performs the traditional song of homesickness, sung in English and Gaelic.
Older readers may remember this.
Well someone had to, right?
From today, the authorities are allowing 200 people indoors, 400 outside.
The next music director at the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg will be Aziz Shokhakimov, 32, from Uzbekistan.
He will succeed Marko Letonja in September 2021.
The agent is HarrisonParrott.
Up to now, Aziz has been Kapellmeister at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
The French-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili kicks off with Deborah’s Theme (from “Once Upon a Time in America”) in an imminent Morricone album, Pianist magazine informs us.
Listen here.
Bayreuth Festival chairman Georg Freiherr von Waldenfels has told the Kurier newspaper that sicklisted director Katharina Wagner is making a rapid recovery from a serious illness.
‘We will be very happy to see her back in the autumn,’ he said.
The Serbian conductor Darinka Matić Marović died today aged 83.
As head of the Collegium Musicum-Belgrade/Serbia from 1971, she conducted more than 10,000 concerts – this, at a time when women were seldom allowed to raise a baton anywhere in the world.
She was also rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade and dean of the Faculty of Music.
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will stage 70 performances of Jesus Christ Superstar from August 14.
The 90-minute show will have socially distanced audiences and cast. Seating capacity has been cut from 1,256 to 390.
The Berliner Festspiele announced a scaled-down programme this morning.
From 25 August, Igor Levit will play Ludwig van Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas over eight concerts in the Philharmonie’s main hall. The Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim will perform Mozart’s last three symphonies. Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt will perform Bach’s solo suites in the Philharmonie. Trumpeter Marco Blaauw will accompany the film “Moving Picture (946-3)” by Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz with music by Rebecca Saunders, at the Zoo Palast cinema. The festival end on 23 September with a Wolfgang Rihm premiere, “Stabat Mater”, performed by Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Gerhaher.
The state of Pennsylvania has recorded 101,000 cases of COVID-19, with almost 7,000 dead.
(Reuters) – Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on Tuesday announced a moratorium on most large public events in the city through Feb. 28, 2021, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
“I know this news will be disappointing for many Philadelphians, it was not an easy decision to make,” Kenney told a news conference. “But as we continue to battle COVID-19 and try to restore some sense of normalcy in our city, we know there will be many difficult decisions to come.”
The mayor said the moratorium will apply to events of 50 people or more on public property, including but not limited to festivals, parades, concerts, carnivals, fairs and flea markets.
UPDATE from the Philadelphia Orchestra: I wanted to clarify that this does not affect the activities of The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts or at other privately-operated venues in which the Orchestra regularly performs. We will be announcing the Orchestra’s plans for the fall on August 17, 2020.
Message from the Havergal BrIan Society:
HBS President and Music Director of English National Opera, Martyn Brabbins, in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra’s Principal second violin David Alberman put together a group of string players from the London orchestras to undertake the first orchestral performance since the beginning of the lockdown. This performance of Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings was captured for YouTube on behalf of Grange Park Opera and can be viewed below. Strauss, of course was the dedicatee of Brian’s Gothic symphony.
Of course.
The performance was organised by Grange Park Opera.
A bored Yuja Wang is posting pictures of her daily life in New York.
Lest we forget.
