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• Monster Mash: V&A Museums new wing; Kelsey Grammer confirmed for Broadway; Miami Art Museums interim leader

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  -- New and expensive : The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has unveiled a new multimillion-dollar wing devoted to medieval and Renaissance works. ( The Guardian ) -- Break a leg : As predicted , Kelsey Grammer is confirmed to star in the Broadway revival of the musical "La Cage aux Folles," which opens in ...
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• Fewer Productions, Smaller Staff for Washington National Opera

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 790
  The opera company said that it would produce five mainstage operas in its 2010-2011 season (compared to the six that it staged in 2009-2010, and seven in 2008-2009). It has eliminated eight positions and frozen salaries and suspended its retirement-plan contributions for its employees.
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• Searching for Henze: the dangers of Spotify | Tom Service

  
  Music: Tom Service on classical music | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 112
  Youve got to be judicious in your selection, or you might find your ears assailed by Rumpi Pumpi Youve got to be careful with Spotify. If you search for Henze – as you do, when youre writing up an interview with Hans Werner Henze that will be in the paper sometime soon – you will find a seeming embarras de ...
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• HARP MUSIC HEALS is bringing it to the world

  
  Press Release Room — Authority: 131
  The HARP, also known as the “instrument of angels,” is one of the oldest and most soothing sounds in the world. Generations have used its magical and enchanting sound to relax and help heal the soul, and medical studies have proven that it raises the level of melatonin and serotonin in the brain.Now world renowned ...
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• Beaker’s Chaotic Ode To Joy. Meep Meep.

  
  Chilligan's Island — Authority: 138
  
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• Opera Review: Barber of Seville at L.A. Opera

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
    Los Angeles Opera ’s cute, clever new production of “The Barber of Seville,” which opened Sunday afternoon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, includes spectacular singing from talented, agile comedians. The costumes are witty. The spirit is light. The pratfalls are plentiful. The jokes are many. Rossini’s ...
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• Music review: Toy pianos and Piano Spheres at Disney Hall

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  For the occasion of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s ongoing West Coast, Left Coast series, the 16-year-old Piano Spheres recital series was invited to the party. The invitation was logical enough, given the series’ contemporary focus and often West Coast connections. On Sunday night, the series headed across ...
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• Music Review: A Program of Songs to Explore the Shades of Love

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The Austrian mezzo-soprano provided her rich, dusky-toned, penetrating sound to songs by Brahms, Wolf, Hahn and Mahler at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday.
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• Les Arts Florissants/Christie | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Barbican, London The final concert in Les Arts Florissants 30th anniversary season focused on the French baroque repertoire that they have made their own. Grand motets written during Louis XIVs reign formed the programme – ornate, often dramatic statements of faith and exultation, some of which aimed to remind ...
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• German Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 790
  York Holler of Germany has won the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award, given by the University of Louisville, for composition.
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• How British opera reinvented itself

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Three leading directors on a decade of change John Berry, artistic director, English National Opera Of all Britains major opera houses, ENO has had perhaps the most bruising decade, featuring one resigning and one deposed general director; a chairman who stepped down; a striking chorus; eleventh-hour bail-outs ...
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• Closing weekend | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Huddersfield contemporary music festival With groups from Paris, Porto, Cologne and London all giving concerts in quick succession on the final Saturday of ­ Huddersfield, there was hardly time to catch ones breath. The focus had become the music of Emmanuel Nunes, now 68 yet still hardly known in the UK, six of ...
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• Leonard Slatkin cancels Disney Hall appearances for December

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  Leonard Slatkin isnt in the clear yet as far as his health is concerned. Earlier this month, the conductor experienced a heart attack while conducting a concert in the Netherlands. According to a report , he felt chest pains while on the podium and later collapsed backstage. He subsequently underwent surgery and has ...
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• Tony Hall – the arts Mister Fix-it

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  First Tony Hall saved the Royal Opera House. Now hes charged with rescuing the Cultural Olympiad. Charlotte Higgins spends a day with the most powerful man in the arts Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, is an unlikely impresario. Theres nothing flash about this softly spoken, modestly besuited man, ...
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• Lincoln Hall renovation on track

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 804
  Lincoln Hall on track to open next summer.
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• Program note

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 133
  By now your favorite critic was planning to have reported on two events (Dudamel conducting the L.A. Phil in music by Salonen, Adams and Harrison; and L.A. Opera’s production of “The Barber of Seville,” starring Gunn, DiDonato and Florez) held over the weekend. But circumstances intervened. On Saturday, a ...
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• Hey, whats that sound: Recorder

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  From the baroque era to Blackadder, this little wind instrument has been played by everyone from Henry VIII to Hendrix What is it? The sound of primary school music rooms everywhere, forever. Everyone reading this must have played a recorder at some point – probably badly. Who uses it? Think recorders are ...
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• Handel’s Messiah – the Mozart cover version

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  The holiday season would not be complete without a performance of Handel’s Messiah . On 10 December there is a rare opportunity to hear a Messiah with a difference: translated into German and re-orchestrated by Mozart for a Viennese performance in 1789, 47 years after its Dublin premiere. The Elysian Singers ...
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• #10: The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive)

  
  SuperSave Price.com — Authority: 168
  The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive) by Various Artists 5 days in the top 100 (11) (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Bestsellers in MP3 Albums list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.) Excerpt from:  #10: The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces ...
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• Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Muti Indulges a Love of Honegger: Who’s to Say No?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Riccardo Muti conducted the second and last outing of a shortish program, consisting of Honegger’s Second Symphony and the “Eroica,” to a large and mostly enthusiastic audience.
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