Today's Classical Music News – May 5, 2008
Michael Vincent
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Editor's Choice
Loud pieces put orchestra musicians' hearing at risk, (St. Louis Post-
Dispatch)
UBS Virtual Maestro allows Severance visitors to 'conduct' orchestra,
(The Plain Dealer (Cleveland))
Who killed the composer?, (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Classical music's twentieth-century tragedy, (Times Online)
With 'Casual Fridays,' Los Angeles Philharmonic lets down its hair,
(Los Angeles Times)
Plus More...
2008-05-05
Where a Symphony Competes With Snacks (Article, Fred Kirshnit - New
York Sun)
Funky touches make Long performing arts center a good fit for Austin
(Article, Scott Cantrell - Dallas Morning News)
Loud pieces put orchestra musicians' hearing at risk (Article, Sarah
Bryan Miller - St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
UBS Virtual Maestro allows Severance visitors to 'conduct' orchestra
(Technology, Donald Rosenberg - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland))
Orchestra of the Swan/Curtis (Review, Rian Evans - Guardian Unlimited)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Article, Kenneth Walton - Scotsman)
Muti to lead Chicago Symphony Orchestra (News, International Herald
Tribune)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ship sinking, but will the band play
on? (Editorial, Lloyd Brown-John - Windsor Star)
Guest Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conductor in tune with his
orchestra (Review, David Gordon Duke - Vancouver Sun)
Rafal Blechacz restores beauty, simplicity to Chopin's music (Review,
Lloyd Dykk - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 1: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Yasmin Rampuri - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 2: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Trevor Dix - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 3: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Ray Mcnabb - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 4: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Rodney Glynn-Morris - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 5: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Pam Grover - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 6: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Mark Formnataro - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 7: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Jane Shoemaker - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 8: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Jon Kimura Parker - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 9: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Patrick Gannon - Vancouver Sun)
Letter 10: Stop dumbing down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(Letters, Len Lythgoe - Vancouver Sun)
Drifting Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on dangerous, unpredictable
course (Letters, George Zukerman - Vancouver Sun)
Toronto soprano wins Eckhardt-Gramatt? National Music Competition
(News, Morley Walker - Winnepeg Free Press)
Regina Symphony Orchestra: A performance as big as the province
(Review, Jeanette Stewart - Regina Leader-Post)
Windsor Symphony Orchestra: Canadian virtuoso dazzles (Review, Ted
Shaw - Windsor Star)
Toronto welcomes back Yo-Yo Ma (Review, John Terauds - Toronto Star)
Caruso gets crunked (Commentary, Teiya Kasahara - National Post)
Yo-Yo Ma takes over where Rostropovich left off (Review, Colin Eatock
- Globe And Mail)
Les Violons du Roys' expert politics (Review, Kate Molleson - Montreal
Gazette)
Carnegie Hall: Exploring America- and beyond (Upcoming Events,
PlaybillArts)
Boulez/London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, London (Review, Richard
Fairman - Financial Times)
Glyndebourne's generation game (Article, Andrew Clark - Financial
Times)
'Little Prince' takes opera to the kiddies (Review, Joshua Kosman -
San Francisco Chronicle)
The Emperor Tito, focus of Mozart's tones and characters' plots
(Review, Anthony Tommasini - New York Times)
Nuns face the guillotine, each on her own terms (Review, Steve Smith -
New York Times)
LSM Blog:
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Today's Birthdays in Music: May 3 (Simoneau, D'Oyly Carte)
Today's Birthday in Music: May 2 (A. Scarlatti)
Today's Birthday in Music: May 1 (Dussek)
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