Metamorphestra uniting classical and pop music
Los Angeles-based Metamorphestra is a recently founded orchestra which, as its name suggests, specializes in transforming music. Taking well-known pop songs, the ensemble’s founder Nick … Read more
CLASSICAL
New York Philharmonic launches Young People’s Concerts Play
Leonard Bernstein’s engaging and insightful Young People’s Concerts helped introduce a whole generation to classical music. Now the New York Philharmonic has begun making available … Read more
Score from Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony exhibited before auction
The original score from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (the Resurrection Symphony) is to be auctioned Nov. 29 for the first time. It was exhibited … Read more
The Lost Operas of Mozart
City Opera Vancouver gave three performances of the Lost Operas of Mozart in Oct 2016, a two-hour production bringing together three works left unfinished by … Read more
Research finds musicians three times more likely to suffer depression
In what is being described as the largest survey of its kind in the world, Help Musicians UK has found alarming rates of depression and … Read more
Musician forced to check viola in hold by Lufthansa
Sekyeong Cheon, deputy principal violist at the Finnish National Opera, was forced to check her viola into the hold of a Lufthansa flight last week … Read more
Why is a German orchestra’s planned performance in Turkey so controversial?
Last week, Germany’s Foreign Ministry abruptly cancelled a planned performance by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in Istanbul. The performance was to have been the Turkish … Read more
Saint-Saëns and his Danse Macabre for Halloween
Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Op. 40, was composed in 1874 as an orchestral tone poem based on a French legend about Death appearing every Halloween … Read more
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra reaches $25 million funding goal
Amid all the news of cuts at orchestras and musicians on strike in defence of pay, it’s something of a relief to hear a successful … Read more
61 years since Maria Callas debuted at the Met
Maria Callas made her much-anticipated debut at the Met on 29 October 1956, 61 years ago. Callas was already world-famous by the time she opened … Read more
Project to use music to track melting ice in Antarctic
A composer was in the Antarctic with a scientific exhibition to collect data that will be used in the creation of a piece based on … Read more
Musician shows how to respond to clients expecting a free concert
Laura Rose runs a string quartet called Bow Fiddle and an agent recently contacted her about a potential concert opportunity. But, there was a catch, … Read more
Five scary pieces of classical music just in time for Halloween
If you’re hosting a Halloween party, or just looking to get yourself suitably worked up into a frenzy of terror for whatever you have planned, … Read more
One-handed pianist debuts with orchestra
Norman Malone almost lost his life in a tragic incident at the age of 10. Although he was paralyzed in one arm, he didn’t stop … Read more
Project creating music with broken instruments
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra is a project in Philadelphia that is seeking to make use of abandoned instruments to create music and encourage children … Read more