This Week in Classical Music

by: Randy Kinkel

April 19, 2009

Xian Zhang

This Week in Classical Music-April 19, 2009

( Phoenix, AZ )
•New Classical Music Mag
•Milan Hires first Woman Conductor

This Week in Classical Music 4-19-09

It’s This Week in Classical Music, an update on what’s happening in the Classical Music world; I’m Randy Kinkel;

There’s a new Classical Music Magazine in town, published in the US—it’s called “Listen: Life with Classical Music”, and it’s published by Archiv Music, but will be editorially independent from the Online classical recording retailer. A New Magazine about Classical music faces some serious competition—not only from Brit publications like Grammophone and BBC Music Magazines, but also from US-Based Opera news, Chamber Music Magazine, Symphony, fanfare and others. The First Issue contains an overview of Seattle’s classical music scene, a profile of Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, and “Fifteen Questions with Peter Gelb from the Metropolitan Opera. Regular features are divided into four categories: Music and Life; Discovery; Recommended (reviews of classical music in recording and print; and Remembering (Profiles of musicians of the past). Introductory subscriptions are just under 15 bucks…. you can find out more at ArchivMusic.com.

In A historic Move, Milan’s Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi has chosen a 35-year old Chinese woman as its next music director. Xian Zhang will be the first woman to ever hold this type of position in all of Italy. She makes her first official appearance with the orchestra April 30th at the Vatican in a concert for the Pope, to include The Vivaldi Magnificat and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Zhang’ s also a new mother with a two-month old baby, and won’t have any trouble communicating with the musicians as she speaks fluent Italian; she has reached the end of her current contract as associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and is expected to spend at least ten weeks a year with the orchestra at it’s home in the Auditorium Di Milano.

For more on these and other items and events, go to our website, kbaq.org; be listening each week at this time for another update, and join me at noon every weekday for the Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries; I’m Randy Kinkel for “This Week in Classical Music” on 89.5 KBAQ Phoenix, a service of Rio Salado College and Arizona State University.

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