Tag: Berlin Philharmonic
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WPA News Digest – September 16, 2024
To start your week, here are a few recent stories that caught our attention! In a surprising announcement this week, the Berlin Philharmonic’s concertmaster Vineta Sareika has announced that she will leave her position with the orchestra. Her final appearances with it as concertmaster will be in February 2025. Her departure will occur near the…
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Link Roundup: June 6, 2023
Readers have bemoaned the lapse of our Link Roundup feature, SO, we are going to try and get back in the swing of it! It just seems like there is SO much important news sometimes, and we can’t claim to have a complete grasp on it — but here are a FEW important and exciting…
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A View from Germany: Classical Music is so Sexist
Inge Kloepfer‘s striking article “So sexistisch ist die Klassik — Classical Music is So Sexist” appeared on June 13, 2018 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. We wanted English-speaking readers to be able to read this important journalism, so we asked Elizabeth Osman to translate it for us, and then I polished her translation. Thank you to…
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News Round Up
Here are some headlines worth paying attention to: Though the LA Philharmonic didn’t promote Saariaho’s world premiere, it received an excellent review in the LA Times: The performance was strong. Dudamel remained constantly attuned to Saariaho’s vastly changeable instrumental colors, a cosmic sonic background for Finley, who handled each song with operatic intensity, part of a…