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Nashville Symphony finds success coping with thousands of migrating birds that had settled at concert hall
“Maybe you’d never heard of purple martins until last year when the roost of more than 100,000 migrating birds was nearing eviction from trees around Nashville Symphony,” writes Tasha...
July 26, 2022
At Salzburg, conductor Teodor Currentzis under fire; his orchestra is funded by Russia’s VTB Bank
Austria’s Salzburg Festival “is being overshadowed by the appearance of a conductor whose orchestra and choir are funded by a bank controlled by the Russian government,” writes Kate Connolly...
July 26, 2022
New development director for Carmel Symphony Orchestra: Tracy Barron
TRACY BARRON has joined Indiana’s Carmel Symphony Orchestra as director of development. A CSO board member from 2002 to 2006, Barron has over 30 years of experience in the...
July 26, 2022
Daniel Gee appointed music director of Santa Barbara Youth Symphony
California’s Santa Barbara Symphony has named DANIEL GEE as music director of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony for the 2022-23 season. Gee is an assistant professor of music at...
July 26, 2022
Canton Symphony performances at area winery and city plaza
The Canton Symphony presented the first of two summer “Symphony Uncorked” performances on July 19 at Gervasi Vineyard in Canton, Ohio. A string quartet from the orchestra—violinists Erin Redhead...
July 26, 2022
Ravinia Festival’s inaugural “Breaking Barriers” event focuses on opportunities for women conductors
“The Ravinia Festival addresses … discrimination head-on with ‘Breaking Barriers: Women on the Podium,’ a mini-festival July 29-31 that includes two Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts, a symposium … an...
July 25, 2022
Seven musicians join Boston Symphony Orchestra
“The Boston Symphony Orchestra has welcomed three new violinists, a cellist, an assistant librarian, and two clarinetists,” reports Susan Elliott in Thursday’s (7/21) Musical America (subscription required). “Jung-Eun (Jenny)...
July 25, 2022
New “Musicians at Play” program for LA-area teens aims to diversify pool of recording-studio musicians
“On a Sunday morning in May [on] the Warner Bros. scoring stage … musicians tuned their … instruments, ready for the downbeat of the conductor’s baton and the red...
July 25, 2022
Review: Sydney Symphony’s inaugural performance in renovated Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
“Complaining about the acoustics in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall has been a virtual blood sport for Sydney concertgoers for the past five decades,” writes Murray Black in...
July 25, 2022
Obituary: Conductor Stefan Soltesz, 73
“Stefan Soltesz, a prominent and in-demand Austrian conductor, died on Friday night after collapsing during a performance at Munich’s main opera house,” writes A.J. Goldmann in Saturday’s (7/23) New York...
July 25, 2022
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