Previous This Week in Classical Music Editions
2008/12/28
•Moscow Violinists assaulted
•Nordinger: No politics on Podium
•Wakin: The year in Classical music
2008/12/21
•Brendel gives last concert in Vienna
•New Arvo Part Symphony online
•Lost Bassoon found on Ebay
2008/12/14
•Baltimore Opera Company files for bankruptcy
•Classical music critic sues Cleveland Orchestra management
•Bass-baritone Richard Van Allan dies at 73
2008/12/07
•Phoenix Chorale nominated for four GRAMMY awards
•YouTube Symphony Orchestra plays music by Tan Dun
•Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Arizona PBS - KAET TV channel 8
2008/11/16
•Guarneri's Dalley Stricken with Cancer
•Met Drops Revival to Save Money
•Mushrooms Make the Strad?
2008/10/26
•Eanet Joins Juilliard Quartet
•CSO to expand Education program
• Virtuoso guards Strad with Magnum
2008/10/12
•Anna M wrote some of Bach's works?
•China bans some western works
•LA Phil creates new music commission fund
2008/09/28
•Josefowicz wins Genius Grant
•Eschenbach to National Symphony
•Holocaust violins play in Jerusalem
2008/09/14
•New classical music download site
• Schwarz to Leave Seattle
•Bach manuscript pages found
2008/08/24
•Met Offers free concert to honor Pavarotti
•Breiner charges music theft at Olympics
•Amram named Dems Composer in residence in Denver
2008/08/03
• What makes Ligeti so Great?
• Isserlis on kids/crossover,
• Sunlight comes to Boston Hall
2008/07/27
•Levine fine after surgery
•Columbus Symphony season delay; talks on hold
•Group protests "Springer: The Opera"
2008/07/20
•Lang Lang auctions
•Steinway for charity
•Cinci musicians in trouble Music makes wine taste better
2008/06/29
•Coppock retires from SPCO
•Venezuela tries Beethoven in Prisons
•Donizetti in Ball Park Draws crowds in SF
2008/06/15
•Big Donation for Toronto
•Chinese pianists flock to US
•Slimmer Voight re-hired for Ariadne
2008/05/18
•NEA Opera award winners announced
•Recordings added to Archive in DC
•Byrne plans to create building / instrument in NYC
2008/05/11
•Muti new MD in Chicago
•opera by Vivaldi gets 1st performance in 278 years
•Kennedy, Bond ousted from Brit awards
2008/05/04
•Rattle contract extended in berlin
•Wolfgang Wagner steps down in Bayreuth
•Monumental Carmina Burana Planned for O2
2008/04/27
•Hindemith Concerto recording debut
•Rattle in or out in Berlin?
•Polenzani wins Sills award
2008/03/28
•SLSO releases download-only recording
•Guarneri played for first time in 70 years
•Brits choose RVW as fave composer
2008/03/03
• Face of Bach reconstructed
• Wolf heads to new gig at NEC
• Met/Juilliard join forces for training program
2008/02/24
• Halle hires 1st female conductor
• Philly packages concerts
• Nagano pays tribute to hockey in Montreal
2008/02/10
• Alban Berg Quartet disbands
• Faves of NYT classical critics
• Instrument museum in Phoenix
2008/02/03
• Yamaha opens instrument tech center
• St. Louis Symphony ups and downs
• Bolshoi to reopen in 2009
2008/01/27
• New World has New Home in Miami
• Sonnenberg new MD with NCCO
• NYP Korean concert shown worldwide
2008/01/20
• New Dallas Arts Center to Feature new Heggie Opera: Moby Dick
• New Orchestra in S Florida
• SF Opera features premieres, half price tickets
2008/01/13
• Violinist Little offers free download
• Berlin Clubs spin classical
• New BBC reality show-Maestro
2008/01/06
• Edo De Waart to lead Milwaukee
• Best selling 21st c. classical recording in Britain?
• Carreras: No three tenors without Pavarotti
2007/12/30
• New York City Opera Homeless
• Battle, Lang Lang christen new Beijing arts center
• Symphony of the Southwest Cancels concerts
2007/12/23
• Live Opera Broadcasts draw record crowds
• Schwarz breaks a leg (literally)
• 1907 opera recording time capsule unearthed
2007/12/16
•Stockhausen dead at 79
•Prokofiev score re-appears as ballet
•Philharmonic to N. Korea in Feb.
2007/12/09
• Classical Grammy nominees
• Composition award to Lieberson
• Toyota unveils robotic violinist
2007/11/25
• Brendel to retire
• De Waart Re-ups in Hong Kong
• Litton rails against acoustics in Miami
2007/11/18
• Theofanadis Oratorio opens in Houston
• Alpert Foundation slates $30 million to UCLA
• Product placement comes to Opera
2007/11/11
• Schnittke Symphony gets US Debut
• Musical America Awards announced
• 1958 Barber Opera revived
• Brit Opera Phenom on Oprah
2007/11/04
• Bell premieres Violin Concerto by Greenberg, 15
• Nagano threatens Chorus
• Really Terrible orchestra
2007/10/21
• PostClassical Ensemble reinvents concerts
• Rubenstein's music score collection to Juilliard
• Juritz Busks worldwide for charity, makes $50K
2007/10/14
• Glass Opera opens to mixed reviews
• Hampson teaches in Manhattan
• Ross - Classical music New Underground
2007/10/07
• Runnicles returns home to Scotland
• Gheorghiu fired in Windy City
• Fischer wins Award in UK
2007/09/30
•New Glass Opera
•Alsop seeks friendlier concert halls
•Is Multi Media Classical music's future?
2007/09/23
•Falletta renews in Buffalo
•Enescu Fest in Bucharest
•Muti lectures premature applauders
2007/09/16
• American music dominates in Detroit
• Jurowski to London
• Symphony Trading cards in Houston
2007/09/09
• Pavarotti Dead at 71
• BSO on European tour
• Guerrero to Nashville
• Younger conductors a trend?
2007/09/02
• Firkusny ashes return to homeland
• More evidence of Beethoven's lead poisoning
• Perfect pitch is genetic
2007/08/26
• Gutierrez diagnosed with Lymphoma: cancels gigs
• Pavarotti stays in hospital: says it's tranquil
• Sills tribute next Month at Met
• Conductor sues over report
2007/08/19
• Gaddes to retire
• NY Philharmonic invited to N. Korea
• CD 25 years old
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic gives concert in online Virtual world
2007/08/12
• Met to expand Live Broadcasts worldwide
• Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson turns 30
• Pavarotti hospitalized
2007/08/05
• Moyse dead
• MTT returns to Hollywood bowl after 22 years
• Beethoven vs. Bad guys in Tacoma
2007/07/29
• Mixed reviews of Wagner's Great Granddaughter's "Meistersinger"
• Russian, Americans win Kapell prizes
• Edo de Waart chosen for Santa Fe Opera
2007/07/01
•Sills Gravely Ill
•Masur the younger to San Antonio
•Grateful Dead Symphony
•Phoenix's Duo 46 wins award
2007/06/24
• Grimaud Ill; ends LA Concert
• XM to carry Baltimore Broadcasts
• Maazel strikes back at critics
• Woody Allen directs Puccini
2007/06/17
•Guarneri retires •Strauss Family must pay royalties •Oboist's Discrimination suit settled2007/06/10
• Ophthalmologist wins Cliburn
• Strad recovered in Vienna
• Eschenbach out in Paris, Philly
2007/06/03
• Tower -- Women composer fest in NYC
• High quality audio downloads for classical?
• Piano popular in China
2007/05/13
• Muti revives Lebanon festivals
• Ferneyhough wins Siemens Music Prize
• Fisticuffs at the Pops
2007/05/06
• CSO extends Jarvi Contract
• Philly envisions global concerts
• Kissin plays 10 encores in Kimmel
2007/04/29
• Rostropovich Dead at 80
• NY splits top job in two
• German wins 1st Emerging Composers Competition
2007/04/22
•Coleman wins music Pulitzer
•Fischer to lead NSO
•BBC music mag awards
•Divas more prone to G/I ills?
2007/04/15
•Avery Fisher Career grants awarded
•Ashkenazy to Sydney
•Salonen Quits LA to compose
•Hornist found with explosives
2007/04/08
•Sting, Terfel among Classical Brit Noms
•Swenson snubbed by Met?
•Strad sells for 2.4 million
2007/04/01
•Putin, Russia, and EMI celebrate Rostropovich's 80th•Moravec named to Einstein's Think Tank
•American Composers Orchestra turns 30
2007/03/25
•Bell Wins Fisher Prize
• Jalbert wins Stoeger
• Holocaust music library in Rome
• Chopin's Piano Found
2007/03/11
•Rostropovich leaves Hospital
• Currier wins prize
• Delfs to Hawaii
• New operas by Adams, Davis
2007/03/04
•Dutoit steps up in Philly
• Soldiers hear concert, see families
• Strad returns home after 20 years
2007/02/25
•Maazel returns to met after 45 years
•Grammy-winning composer Golijov featured in Mozart Fest
•Glass finally heard in Baltimore, his home town
2007/02/11
•Rostropovich Hospitalized
•"Grapes of Wrath" becomes Opera
•Sphinx Competition in Detroit
2007/01/28
•Reich Wins Polar Music Prize
•Requiem for Darfur in Carnegie Hall
•Domingo sing baritone in Boccanegra
2007/01/21
•Schwantner next "Made in America" Composer
•Charity delivers instruments to Palestine, Israel
•Classics a hit in clubs, pubs and galleries
2007/01/14
•Classical fastest growing in digital music sales
•HD Met opera in Theaters a hit
•LA new music series turns 20
•Tocanini artworks on display at Avery Fisher Hall
2007/01/05
•Israeli, Palestinian ambassadors enjoy concert on Buenos Aires.
•Sellars slams complacent orchestras.
•Opera singer sues Hilton over bedbugs.
2006/12/24
•Daniel Pinkham Dead at 83
•Bernard Haitink named Musician of the Year
•Israel Philharmonic celebrates 70th
2006/12/17
•Alagna walks off during Aida
•Tan Dun to conduct own opera with Met
•Bizet's bust stolen from Tomb
2006/12/10
• Grammy award nominations are in.
• 99 tuba players take the stage for Tommy Johnson.
•Tanglewood Grounds damaged by hurricane.
2006/12/03
•Berlin moves to lure younger audiences.
•Strad sound from chemicals?
•Domingo/Phonak team up to help others hear.
2006/11/26
•Salonen to Philharmonia
•Thai Gov't nervous over opera scene
•Sony fires 7 in classical division
2006/11/19
•Lockhart to leave Utah
•Upshaw undergoes cancer treatment
•Bocelli won't sing at TomKat wedding
•O'Reilly scandal becomes oratorio
2006/10/29
•Slatkin Joins IU faculty
•First recording by BSO found
•Kennedy injures arm in bike accident
2006/10/22
•Unhappiness, Vandalism in Seattle
•WNO presents "Butterfly" free at Washington Mall
•Sting says Rock is Boring; Dowland Rocks
2006/10/08
•SF Opera, Symphony get huge gifts
•Met offers $20 seats
•Charlotte Church talks on BBC Cell Phone Symphony premieres
2006/09/24
•Swiss Conductor Armin Jordan dies.
•MET Opera Sets Up Satellite Channel.
•From the Top Set to Air on PBS.
•John Mauceri steps down as principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
2006/09/17
•First woman wins Solti Comp.
•CBSO launches monthly Podcast
•Top ten classical iTunes downloads
2006/09/03
•Oldest Bach Manuscript, unknown Pachelbel fantasias found
•Nordic fest features 2 world premieres
•Previn, Muttter Split
2006/08/27
•Slatkin adds Nashville to resume
•Welsh, English singers win competition in Seattle
•New book explores how the brain processes music
2006/08/20
•Met commissions opera from Marsalis
•Travel restrictions hit musicians
•Milton Kaye Dies
2006/08/13
•Reich premieres new piece at 70th BD fest
•Ozawa returns to Tanglewood
•Pianos purged in Russia
2006/07/30
•Levine best-paid US conductor
•Pavarotti says it ain’t over...
•Mozart fest opens with computer art, music
2006/07/09
•Pavarotti recovering from surgery
•Photo of Mozart's wife found
•Orchestras: "Pops" replaced by Alt-rock?
2006/07/02
• Lockhart named Brevard Director
• Russians, Americans dominate Honens
• Orchestra for sale on Ebay
2006/06/11
• Osmo Vanska drops Finnish Orch
• McDuffie buys Guarneri with help from friends
• Nat’l Accordion Awareness month!
