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YouTube Symphony Orchestra’s overwhelming success
Published: April 17, 2009The one-of-a-kind YouTube Symphony Orchestra gave its simultaneous debut and farewell (until further notice) on April 15 at the one-of-a-kind Carnegie Hall, with Artistic Advisor and Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on the podium, and before an enthusiastic, sold-out audience. News coverage – online, in print, and on TV and radio – went around the world in the weeks and days before the concert, which was the brainchild of young staff members at YouTube’s parent, Google, and which was brought to Carnegie Hall and the world stage by a battery of talented people from more than 30 countries.
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Michael Stern conducts Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Apr 27 & 28)
Published: April 14, 2009Michael Stern, music director of the Kansas City Symphony and a Curtis alumnus, conducts the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in the final concert of its 2008-09 season on Monday, April 27 at 8pm in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. The program will be repeated at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, April 28 at 8pm. Mr. Stern, a 1986 graduate of Curtis, last conducted the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in 2005.
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Fischer and BFO perform Mahler’s Fourth on new CD
Published: April 14, 2009Conductor Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra – who are currently celebrating their 25th-anniversary season – add another jewel to their glittering discography for Channel Classics with the U.S. release of a new recording of Gustav Mahler’s sublime, transcendent Symphony No. 4,on April 14. The album, featuring Swedish soprano Miah Persson singing the finale’s dream poem on the joys of heavenly life, has already been greeted with a chorus of critical acclaim. Gramophone named the album an “Editor’s Choice” selection in its April 2009 issue, which also features a major feature story about “the remarkable alchemy of a conductor and the orchestra everyone is talking about.”
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21C Media Group Names Philip Wilder Vice President
Published: April 10, 200921C Media Group, Inc. announced today that Philip Wilder has been named Vice President. For the past four years, Mr. Wilder has held the position of Director of Artist Development with 21C Media Group, working closely with a roster of artists and arts organizations, including Grammy® Award-winners mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Yefim Bronfman, and acting as general manager for the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky. In his new capacity as Vice President, Mr. Wilder will collaborate with founding partners Albert Imperato, Jessica Lustig, and Glenn Petry to expand the company’s business in the areas of public relations, marketing, and consulting, while continuing his work with a select roster of artists and arts institutions.
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Mezzo DiDonato sings Lieberson premiere with Gilbert in NYC
Published: April 09, 2009In May, on a temporary break from the year’s Handel and Haydn anniversaries, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato turns to a world premiere by Peter Lieberson – The World in Flower – with the New York Philharmonic. In three performances of the work, commissioned by the orchestra and conducted by its music director-designate, Alan Gilbert, Ms. DiDonato will be joined by baritone Russell Braun and the New York Choral Artists on May 7, 8, and 9 at Avery Fisher Hall.
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EMI Classics & Virgin Classics April 2009 releases
Published: April 07, 2009Highlights from EMI Classics Include Shadows of Silence, Featuring Leif Ove Andsnes in World-Premiere Recording of Dalbavie’s Piano Concerto; All-Ravel Album from Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic; Martha Argerich and Friends from 2008 Lugano Festival; and Three Commemorative Sets Documenting Supreme Artistry of Yehudi Menuhin
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Chanticleer’s spring 2009 tours include China debut
Published: April 06, 2009The Grammy-winning twelve-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer will give eight performances in five cities during its first tour of China, which begins on May 1 in Suzhou and ends on May 10 in Hong Kong. Before heading to Asia, however, Chanticleer – now in its 31st season – will give concerts in Morrow, GA; Huntsville, AL; St. Paul and Moorhead, MN; and the Temple of Dendur at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to various educational residencies, the group will also lead a Youth Choral Festival in Hibbing, Minnesota on April 21.
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YouTube Symphony Orchestra Meets for the First Time in New York
Published: April 02, 2009The YouTube Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Artistic Advisor and Conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas, will meet for the first time in New York City April 12-15 for a global classical music summit at the Juilliard School. These talented musicians will participate in master classes with world-renowned musicians, rehearse together, and share in each other’s diverse experiences and backgrounds. The summit culminates in a concert event at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 PM.
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eighth blackbird curates 2009 Ojai Music Festival
Published: April 01, 2009The Ojai Music Festival’s 2009 music director, eighth blackbird, collaborating with OMF’s artistic director, Thomas W. Morris, has announced the final programs for this year’s Festival, which takes place between Thursday, June 11 and Sunday, June 14 in Ojai, about 40 miles east of Santa Barbara, and 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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Pianist Yefim Bronfman’s new Salonen CD is released on DG
Published: April 01, 2009Since playing its world premiere with the New York Philharmonic in February 2007, Yefim Bronfman has often performed Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto with the composer conducting. A year ago in Los Angeles, Salonen conducted Bronfman in the work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Deutsche Grammophon recorded it live, filling out the disc with two other piano pieces by Salonen, Helix and Dichotomie (a solo work). The recording, scheduled for U.S. release in April, is a valedictory testament to Salonen’s long and successful tenure as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director, and a fitting document of the close 20-year friendship between the pianist and the composer/conductor.