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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Wagner fest goes online
Yahoo! News

Pavarotti's estate settled
CBC

Orchestra of two worlds
New York Times

Sistema Scotland debuts
BBC Music

Levine and the BSO hit Tanglewood
Watertown TAB & Press

Maestro Manahan re-ups at NYC opera
Broadway World

Writing opera ain't cheap
NewMusicBox

Bachauer Young Artists piano competition winner announced
Waterloo Record

Upheaval at Stamford Center for the Arts
Stamford Advocate

Former Vancouver Symphony concertmaster, Alexander Gokhman has died
Columbian

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Slatkin's coda
Washington Post

Finding hope amid flood
Louisville Courier-Journal

Symphony of millions
New Yorker

Dallas Opera ends fiscal year on a high note
Dallas Morning News

Brooklyn Philharmonic Gets $2.5M Grant
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Sommerfest artistic director Litton extends contract
Pioneer Press

Music by grownups
Tampa Bay Examiner

Cascade Festival Of Music shuts down
OPB News

Bach to the future, 300 years later
Montreal Gazette

Pianist Leonard Pennario Dies
Daily Press

Monday, June 30, 2008

Clean start for Kitts
St. Petersburg Times

TSO's has record sales year
CBC

An overlooked sound
Press-Telegram

Applause for Alsop's first season
Baltimore Sun

MSO and Kent Nagano parting ways with Lanaudière Festival
Montreal Gazette

Composing behind closed doors
Philadelphia Inquirer

Violin music school opens in Pakistan
Nation

Indian opera goes to Italy
Calcutta Telegraph

Conductor always thinking ahead
Press-Enterprise

Arts Attendance Up in Birmingham
Birmingham News

Friday, June 27, 2008

SPCO president retires
Pioneer Press

Still pushing boundaries
Georgia Straight

Sound overhaul for Boettcher
Denver Post

Selling It: Your Name Here (TM)
NewMusicBox

Miami Herald drops classical critic
Miami Herald

Think big, think Mahler
The Australian

Pianist goes interplanetary
Georgia Straight

UNICEF Canada Names 13-Year-Old Pianist as National Youth Rep
UN News Centre

Synagogue Is No Place To Perform Richard Strauss
Forward

MSO Singer's Ex-Husband Will Go To Trial
Today's TMJ4

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Shades of color
Diverse

How YouTube shrank the classical world
La Scena Musicale

UPAF misses fundraising goal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Annapolis orchestra president resigns
Annapolis Capital

Bringing classics to the barrios
New York Daily News

German opera, theater director Grueber has died
Bloomberg

Elvis Costello goes classical
Metro

Annapolis Opera aims for innovation
Baltimore Sun

Mark your calendar, no wait! Don't!
Sandusky Register

Pianist Margaret Kitchin has died
BBC Music

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

In search of perfect harmony
New York Times

N. Korean orchestra may visit US
Daily Yomiuri

China's keyboard moments
Australian

Akron Symphony Orchestra awarded $700K
Akron Beacon Journal

7-year-old piano prodigy plays NYC
El Paso Times

The Best Seat in the House
Wall Street Journal

Canadian government asks CBC to reconsider orchestra’s demise
Georgia Straight

Philharmonia strikes up deal with Signum Classics
Gramophone

Longtime Spoleto director announces retirement
TheDigitel

Top producer bows out of Opera Australia
Sydney Morning Herald

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The prison sistema
International Herald Tribune

And the band played on
New York Times

Cincinnati Symphony audience grows
Cincinnati Enquirer

The hunt for the perfect instrument
Toronto Star

The decline of longhair music
Reason.com

Plans are in works to restore symphony's organ
SignOn San Diego

Philharmonic music director honored
Idaho Statesman

Are video game theme tunes the new classics?
Sunday Herald

Season of the impossible
Philadelphia Inquirer

The once fat lady sings - and how
The Observer

Monday, June 23, 2008

How not to run an orchestra
Florida Times-Union

Met Opera -- A New Act
BenRosen.com

It takes a nation...
New Statesman

National Ballet concertmaster to retire
Globe and Mail

$200K Hearst grants awarded to San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Chronicle

Displaced by construction, an orchestra finds a home
New York Times

Montreal Symphony Orchestra choral boss returns to California
Montreal Gazette

Striking the right chord
Guelph Mercury

Music - live from the mountains
Gramophone

14 WA groups receive arts grants
Bellevue Reporter

Friday, June 20, 2008

Verbier Orchestra sees the light
New York Times

A good investment?
La Scena Musicale

Really, really over... this time?
Wall Street Journal

The Aria of Prince Algorino
New York Times

The day the Philharmonic burned
Culturekiosque

Cedar Rapids Symphony washed out from floods
Cedar Rapids Gazette

Rustic setting is home to music festival
Olympian

Police capture suspect in death of Augusta Symphony cellist
Augusta Chronicle

Q&A with the DSO principal harpist
Detroit Free Press

American Wind Symphony on solid ground
Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Opera foul!
CBC

Delfs' departure sad, but feels right
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

San Jose Chamber Orchestra wins award
San Jose Mercury News

Singapore's Cool Conductor
Asia News Network

Dudamel To Lead Israel Philharmonic to America
New York Sun

Presto! You're a music era expert
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Shreveport Symphony receives $70K award
Shreveport Times

Opera, ballet to become part of Cleveland Orchestra season
Aurora Advocate

Minnesota arts board awards $30K in grants
St. Cloud Times

New Adelaide concert hall needed
Adelaide Now