Mozart Died of What?
Vitamin D lack linked to Mozart’s death
Bayreuth May Improve Ticket Allocation, Limit Privileged Seats
The Bayreuth Festival Theater.
Source: Bayreuth Festival via Bloomberg
Bayreuth Festival’s supervisory board will examine the way it allocates tickets and make improvements where needed, after federal auditors criticized current practices, German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said.
Relaxing, Touching the Memory, Music Helps With the Final Transition
On Tuesdays in the Bronx, Yelena Zatulovsky, a music therapist, plays songs for Millicent Williams, 94, who came to the United States from Jamaica as a young girl, and now is dying of colon cancer.
Photograph: Suzanne De Chillo/The New York Times
Every week, three music therapists from MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care crisscross the city and suburbs to sing songs to the dying. With guitars strapped to their backs, a flute or tambourine and a songbook jammed in their backpacks, they play music for more than 100 patients, in housing projects, in nursing homes and even in a lavish waterfront home. The time for chemotherapy and radiation is over.
Glyndebourne Prodigy to Take the Helm
British conductor Robin Ticciati is to be music director of the Glyndebourne Festival, Britain’s annual summer opera event on the Sussex estate of the its late founder, John Christie. Glyndebourne is known as much for its artistic program as for its aristocratic trappings, with patrons attending the opera in formal attire and dining during the interval.
Romania brings back its baroque past
Pigeons fly over the centre of Sibiu, Transylvania, where recently discovered baroque manuscripts are being studied.
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/Getty
Bach and Corelli hidden among the lost musical heritage of Transylvania
Local luthier’s entry goes from farce to first
A collection of Puglici's finished instruments
BENEDICT Puglisi, the only specialist double-bass maker in Australia, is racing out the door to do emergency instrumental surgery when The Age first calls to speak to him about winning the top medal at a prestigious global competition in San Francisco recently…
Major Trove Of Classical Music Manuscripts For Sale
J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 171 is part of the Lehman Collection. The iron-gall ink Bach used to compose the piece has eroded the paper.
Photo: Caroline Cooper
For music lovers, some melodies may seem priceless. But if you ever wondered what music is really worth — like the original manuscript to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero? That score and about 200 more, which reside at New York’s Morgan Library, are on sale for $135 million. They are part of the esteemed Lehman Collection — a group of nearly 200 scores that reads like a greatest hits of classical music. Christoph Wolff, a professor of music history at Harvard, calls it “the trophy collection.”
Nico Muhly: ‘Wearing a mask frees you to say anything’
Young composer Nico Muhly
Photo: Samantha West
He’s super-bright, full of opinions and the hottest young composer around. Ivan Hewett meets Nico Muhly, creator of a new opera for ENO
BBC announces UK-wide ‘Music Nation’ celebration
Nicola Benedetti, the CBSO and BBC ensembles to perform
Berlin Phil, Charging Ahead in 2011-12
Photograph: Mark Allan
BERLIN — The Berlin Philharmonic announced its 2011-2012 season in the foyer of the Philharmonie Monday afternoon, with Intendant Martin Hoffmann joined by Music Director Sir Simon Rattle, board member/oboist Andreas Wittmann and principal cello/general manager of Berlin Phil Media GmbH Olaf Maninger. There was also further discussion of the orchestra’s withdrawal from the Salzburg Easter Festival, about which more later.
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