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NEWS ABOUT: orchestra

orchestra stories: 9 news summaries

 LA Shows the Love to 
 28-Year-Old Maestro  

Gustavo Dudamel takes up baton at leading American orchestra

Oct 1, 09 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Los Angeles Philharmonic greeted its new music director yesterday with waves, cheers, and bursts of brass and strings, and cameras tailed the new boss as he hugged his principal musicians. It wasn't a standard first day, but Gustavo Dudamel of Venezuela isn't a standard maestro—he's only 28 years... More »

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California • classical music • Los Angeles • Gustavo Dudamel • Los Angeles Philharmonic • orchestra • conductor

(Newser) - Overpaid maestros had better accept slimmer paychecks before America's great orchestras sink into silence, John von Rhein writes in the Chicago Tribune. With the Great Recession raging and musicians accepting pay cuts, big-name conductors like Lorin Maazel and James Levine still rake in millions. Welcome to "the dirty little... More »

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bankruptcy • recession • salary • economy • orchestra • pay cut • Jay-ZTV

 YouTube Orchestra Makes 
 Strong, if Not Subtle, Debut 

Symphony orchestra was selected by YouTube viewers voting on clips

Apr 16, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - YouTube's "crowdsourced" symphony orchestra made its debut at Carnegie Hall last night. Its 90-plus members played like "a finely tuned instrument," a BBC reviewer found, despite the fact that they had only met in person a couple of days earlier. The musicians, from 30 countries, were picked... More »

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YouTube • classical music • Carnegie Hall • orchestra

YouTube Musicians on Their Way to Carnegie Hall

Viewers vote 90 players onto orchestra

Mar 4, 09 11:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Even Internet boosters who predicted that the Web would democratize everything probably weren’t including classical music. The first YouTube Symphony Orchestra has completed auditions, and is set to perform April 15, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Ninety musicians—ages 17 through 55—from some 30 countries were voted onto... More »

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YouTube • classical music • Carnegie Hall • orchestra

Chinese Virtuoso Conducts Assault on Glass Ceiling

Classical superstar Xian Zhang is young, energetic—and a woman

Jan 8, 09 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - In the traditional world of classical music, no area has been less hospitable to women than the conductor’s platform. So it’s remarkable that one of the world’s hottest maestros is not just a woman, but a 35-year-old from China—Xian Zhang, associate conductor at the New York... More »

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China • music • classical music • Chinese women • New York Philharmonic • orchestra • conductor • Xian Zhang • wowOwow

 Robo-Maestro Takes Baton 

Honda robot manages to wow Detroit audience despite limitations

May 14, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - It was classical music, but when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra hit its final note last night, it sounded an awful lot like the future. Honda’s Asimo robot led a real, live, human orchestra, and though the android was only repeating the recorded movements of a human, the performance went... More »

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classical music • Detroit • Honda • robot • orchestra • conductor

 Shhh! Europe Law Forces 
 Orchestras to Tone It Down 

Noise legislation means musicians are playing musical chairs, the real game

Apr 19, 08 9:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new law in Europe to protect employees from ear-damaging noises is stifling a surprise industry—orchestras. Conductors are taking it down a notch to comply, in one case canceling a world premiere because it exceeded the allowable decibels in rehearsal, the New York Times reports. At the Royal Opera... More »

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European Union • classical music • composer • noise • orchestra • conductor • decibel

 Pavarotti Lipsynched
 Last Performance 

Late tenor too sick to sing live at Turin Olympics opening ceremony

Apr 7, 08 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lipsynching isn't just for neophytes like Nikki Hilton—none other than tenor Luciano Pavarotti faked his way through his final public performance at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics, the Guardian reports. In a new book, Pavarotti's conductor and pianist claims that he recorded the cancer-stricken tenor and the... More »

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classical music • opera • Luciano Pavarotti • tenor • orchestra • Turin Olympics • Leone Magiera • conductor • lip sync

MUSIC REVIEW

 Dudamel Dazzles in LA Debut 

Venezuelan conductor kicks off new job

Mar 31, 08 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gustavo Dudamel lived up to all the hype last Friday, when he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time since Esa-Pekka Salonen announced that the 27-year old maestro would be replacing him as the orchestra's music director in 2009.  Dudamel paid homage to Salonen by opening with... More »

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classical music • Gustavo Dudamel • orchestra • symphony • LA Philharmonic • Debussy • Esa-Pekka Salonen

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