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28/02/2025

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đź“° Latest Cuts at NY Public Radio Include WQXR Content Chief
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đź“° Rhiannon Giddens Cancels KenCen
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đź“° Letter from Michael Tilson Thomas
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đź“° A Fresh Eye at Segerstrom
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REVIEWS: A 'Strange' Premiere at SFSymphonyAs part of its cost-saving regimen, the San Francisco Symphony has said it w...
28/02/2025

REVIEWS: A 'Strange' Premiere at SFSymphony

As part of its cost-saving regimen, the San Francisco Symphony has said it will commission fewer new works in the future. But one that was already in the pipeline, Xavier Muzik’s Strange Beasts, received its world premiere February 21 at Davies Symphony Hall. It was commissioned as part of the Emerging Black Composer’s Project, a joint venture by the Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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INDUSTRY NEWSEastern Music Festival (EMF), est. 1962, has cancelled its upcoming iteration for the first time ever, save...
28/02/2025

INDUSTRY NEWS
Eastern Music Festival (EMF), est. 1962, has cancelled its upcoming iteration for the first time ever, save for the pandemic.

The event, scheduled this year for June 28-August 2, is held annually on the campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. It is primarily a young-artists-in-training program with professional musicians serving as faculty

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWSBAM President Will ExitFebruary 24, 2025 | By Taylor Grant, Musical AmericaAfter three years as its pr...
24/02/2025

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

BAM President Will Exit

February 24, 2025 | By Taylor Grant, Musical America

After three years as its president, Gina Duncan will step down from The Brooklyn Academy of Music when her contract expires in June. The first person of color to lead BAM, her 2022 appointment represented her return to an organization she had served as first vice president of film and strategic programming before an 18-month stint as producing director of the Sundance Institute.

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REVIEWSGötterdämmerung in a Boxing RingFebruary 24, 2025 | By Clive Paget, Musical AmericaLONDON—In recent years the U.K...
24/02/2025

REVIEWS

Götterdämmerung in a Boxing Ring

February 24, 2025 | By Clive Paget, Musical America

LONDON—In recent years the U.K. has seen a steady rise in micro-Rings, pared back versions of Wagner’s epic four-parter delivered by increasingly smaller orchestral forces. Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove's boiled down ten-hour cycle for Birmingham Opera Company got the ball rolling back in the 1990s, but lately Longborough Festival Opera and now the intrepid Regents Opera have demonstrated that the complete work can be fully viable for smaller companies, assuming they can find the right singers and orchestral players.

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24/02/2025

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Letter from Michael Tilson Thomas

February 24, 2025 | By Michael Tilson Thomas

February, 2025

Dear Friends,

Three years ago I wrote to tell you that I'm battling Glioblastoma. The three and a half years since the initial diagnosis have been a special time in my life, filled with friends, family, and music. They have also been challenging as I had to undergo a second operation and manage complications from the treatments that have held the tumor at bay.

My doctors have informed me that the tumor has returned. We continue to work with the superb group at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center. There arc treatment options, but the odds arc uncertain.

Joshua and I are in San Francisco with the pups, and we take occasional jaunts to Bolinas. Our home is filled with memories of a full life. There's a keyboard on each floor and occasionally a piece by CPE Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, a Broadway melody, or one of my own tunes seem to emerge. Sometimes I can share these moments. Other times I find my own personal peace and solace.

Now is the time to wind down my public appearances. During the past year I had the opportunity to come full circle with musicians and orchestras I hold most dear. My work with the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philhannonic, Chicago Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic was very special. In March I have concerts planned with the New World Symphony and, on April 26, the San Francisco Symphony is celebrating my 80th birthday. At that point we all get to say the old show business expression, "It's a wrap."

A "coda" is a musical element at the end of a composition that brings the whole piece to a conclusion. A coda can vary greatly in length. My life's coda is generous and rich.

Life is precious.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWSHilary Is BackFebruary 24, 2025 | By Sarah Shay, Musical AmericaAfter seven months spent away from the...
24/02/2025

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Hilary Is Back

February 24, 2025 | By Sarah Shay, Musical America

After seven months spent away from the concert stage to recover from a double pinched nerve, violinist Hilary Hahn will resume performing at the end of February. The occasion will be four performances of the Brahm’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and conductor Herbert Blomstedt.

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