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During his first long interview, Pope Francis revealed his tastes in music, art and literature, confirming earlier reports that he is an opera fan... -
Critics' Circle Music Section Hands Out Gongs to Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Iestyn Davies and More
The Critics’ Circle is the oldest critics' organization in the world and, to date, counts more than 400 members who work in the media throughout the United Kingdom. -
Classicalite Recording News: Debussy Google Doodle Causes Upsurge in CD Sales
A rather lovely story from the good fellas at Google. Their recent Google Doodle marking the anniversary of Debussy's birth (his 151st, since you ask) was a hit for the classical recording industry... -
Five Quickies: Il Divo on Broadway, Zach Braff in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' Chris Thile's Mandolin Bach, Verizon's Droid Mozart Ad, Brolin Family Rock Opera
And with the world's best musicians, singers, dancers and actors going back to repertory work after their summer stocks, there's more good news happening now than there was, say, back in August... -
Salzburg's Mozart Distillerie Refines "Mozart Chocolate Cream" for 60th Anniversary
Do you like your Mozart sweet and intoxicating? Here you are...just don't drive afterwards! -
Classicalite's Five Best: Luciano Pavarotti Recordings
Essential recordings from the much-missed great Italian tenor, as Decca marks 50 years of his international career... -
Five Quickies: Sir David Frost's Last Barenboim Interview, DiDonato Interviews Dame Janet Baker, iPad Saves Classical Music, Quinn Sullivan on Leno, Mozart Baby Pics
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Justus Frantz, Son of Righteous Gentiles, to Run Israel Sinfonietta
The conductor and pianist Justus Frantz has been named the new music director of the Israel Sinfonietta, to take up his post in September 2013. He succeeds the outgoing Doron Salomon, who has been in the position since 2005 and has just... -
American Baritone Thomas Hampson’s BBC HARDtalk Interview with Sarah Montague: Tough, or Just Stupid?
The leading American baritone Thomas Hampson appears to have done his reputation no end of good (not that it needed much polishing, let’s face it) with a gracious and yet eloquent and robust defense of his art form on the BBC’s HARDtalk... -
WQXR's Albums of the Week: Mahler with Blumine, Mozart at Home and Canadian Brass' Schumann
WQKR, one of Classcalite's favorite terrestrial stations at 105.9 FM, suggests three recent discs that offer a new spin on the well-worn: Mahler's 'Symphony No. 1' with its Blumine movement in tact; a pair of Mozart pianoforte concerti... -
Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Braid at 34
Despite the best efforts of would-be interdisciplinarians throughout Euclidean space and Cartesian time--from antiquity's Pythagoreans, to Leonard Meyer's Chicago cohorts of the '60s, to the acolytes of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Bloomington colloquia--music, science and
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