This Week in Classical Music
- Ozawa cancels gigs due to illness
- New pgm brings opera to military bases
- Classical soothes canines at shelter
It's this week in Classical music, an update on what's happening in the classical music world, I'm Randy Kinkel.
Seiji Ozawa is suffering from a bronchial infection that has forced him to cancel his performances this season with the Vienna State opera. The conductor still plans to make it to Tanglewood in August, where he will conduct Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. Ozawa left Boston in 2002 for the job in Vienna.
Instead of Tuxes and furs, Audience members had on desert cammies at a recent opera performance. It's all part of an NEA program to bring opera to the troops. The NEA is reaching out to the 1.4 million men and women on active duty in the US military, presenting Verdi and Puccini instead of the more familiar John Philip Sousa. Performances at Camp Pendleton have been well-attended. Says Col. Pat O'Donogue, commander of Pendleton's headquarters and support battalion, "I guess it doesn''t go with the stereotype of a marine... Good music is good music... and this stuff has stood the test of time."
Officials at an English animal rescue center have found classical music soothes their four-footed friends. The animals are said to respond well to Bach and Mozart... but not so well to Pop or dance music. Deputy manager Anita Clarke said, "It is a very stressful environment, and it definitely works… it's quieter in the kennels now because if one dog barks when it's quiet they all start, but if music's playing they don't." at least one animal rescue shelter in the valley also plays classical music for it's canines.
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