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Bravo! Vail Music Festival marks 35 years
“The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has been a fixture in the valley for 35 summers, growing from a small collection of chamber music performances to become one of the...
July 18, 2022
Four conductors named as LA Phil’s 2022-23 Dudamel Fellows
“The newest class of Dudamel Fellows at the Los Angeles Philharmonic” was announced on Monday, writes Peter Feher in Tuesday’s (7/12) San Francisco Classical Voice. “The orchestra’s program for...
July 18, 2022
Arizona Commission on the Arts gets major increase in funding from state legislature
“The Arizona Commission on the Arts has received a one-time appropriation of $5 million in the $18 billion state budget for 2023-2024,” writes Sofia Krusmark in Wednesday’s (7/13) Arizona...
July 18, 2022
Glasgow’s Musicians in Exile Orchestra helps refugees rebuild their lives
“When Angaddeep Singh Vig arrived in Glasgow from India as an 18-year-old asylum seeker in January 2020, without any of his beloved musical instruments, he remembers feeling like ‘a...
July 18, 2022
Review: Chicago Symphony’s first 2022 concert at Ravinia, following mass shooting in Highland Park
“Eleven days had passed since a shooter opened fire on a July 4 parade in downtown Highland Park,” writes Hannah Edgar in Sunday’s (7/17) Chicago Tribune about the Chicago...
July 18, 2022
Obituary: Conductor Daniel Stern, 79
“Conductor Daniel Stern, who spent four decades furthering orchestral music in Boise, Idaho, has passed away,” states an unsigned obituary in Wednesday’s (7/13) Violin Channel. “Born in Switzerland, Stern...
July 18, 2022
Obituary: Conductor Bramwell Tovey, music director at multiple North American orchestras, 69
“Bramwell Tovey, named music director of the Sarasota Orchestra just under one year ago, died at his home in Rhode Island on July 12, one day after his 69th...
July 14, 2022
Students of Afghanistan National Institute of Music make music—and new lives—in Portugal
“On a sweltering May morning … a series of unfamiliar sounds emanated from the top of a former military hospital in western Lisbon,” writes Javier C. Hernández in Wednesday’s...
July 14, 2022
Springfield Symphony musicians tap former music director Kevin Rhodes as artistic advisor
“Kevin Rhodes, who led the Springfield Symphony Orchestra for 20 years, has been named artistic advisor of the … Musicians of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, or MOSSO,” writes Ray...
July 14, 2022
St. Louis Symphony to demolish 19th-century Culver House in preparation for Powell Hall renovation/expansion
“Demolition is expected to begin as soon as Monday on a historic house next to Powell Hall,” writes Farrah Anderson in Wednesday’s (7/13) St. Louis Public Radio. “Preservationists …...
July 14, 2022
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