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Part I: 1. "Drunk Moonlight" -
Classicalite's Five Best: Tenor Turns in Verdi Recordings
It's Verdi year, in case you hadn't noticed from all the people in the opera world rushing around shouting, "It's Verdi year!" Well, I am, but then I'm a die-hard Verdi nut. So. In honor of the big 2013 Verdi anniversary... -
LIVE STREAM: Jamie Barton Singing Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at Aspen Music Festival
Upon the news of Jamie Barton's double victory at the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World--the mezzo won both the main award and the song prize, quite a rare feat--the Aspen Music Festival and School tore up its schedule to get the... -
EXCLUSIVE: Countertenor Iestyn Davies Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"Having an opinion is not enough." -- Iestyn Davies -
EXCLUSIVE: Baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"...if it's not an economic priority for a news organization to have a policy of informing and advising their readers about cultural events, and commentating on them, then it's not a priority for me to buy that paper." -- Anthony... -
Conductor Andrew Litton Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"The demise of the music critic strikes a somber knell for all musicians." -- Andrew Litton -
UPDATE: Cartoon Trivia ANSWERS with Léo & Péri
Léonin (b. 1150?) was the first-known composer; Pérotin (b. 1200??) was the second-known composer. Having known so little about them, though, we've since dubbed the pair the patron saints of Classicalite's Cartoon Trivia with... -
REVIEW: Plácido Domingo, 'Verdi' (Sony Classical)
UPDATE: It turns out that it isn't Domingo singing the tenor role in the Boccanegra Council Chamber scene. Good for the tenor Aquiles Machado, who sounds uncommonly like his more august colleague. But I'm welching on my bet... -
New and Improved: Classicalite Digest, Vol. 5
OK, good and faithful Classicalites--put down your phones and tablets. The latest edition of the Classicalite Digest (Volume 5, that is) is out now... -
Cartoon Trivia with Léo & Péri
Léonin (b. 1150?) was the first-known composer; Pérotin (b. 1200??) was the second-known composer. Having known so little about them, though, we've since dubbed the pair the patron saints of Classicalite's Cartoon Trivia with... -
From John Luther Adams to Mason Bates, Today's Composers "Do" the Environment
Interesting report from our friends over at San Francisco Classical Voice--and good timing, following hard on the heels of Classicalite's own missive about Paul Walde and orchestra protesting at a new ski resort from atop a glacier... -
Min-Jin Kym's £1.2 Million Stradivarius, Stolen from a London Pret, is Finally Returned
A happy ending for a Strad stolen in England, appropriately enough at a time when Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has mounted arguably the finest exhibition of Stradivarius instruments in living memory... -
There's an App for That: Witold Lutosławski's Birthday Guide to Warsaw, as per Fryderyk Chopin
It's not just Verdi, Britten, 'The Rite of Spring' and Licia Albanese. Piekło, it's Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's birthday, too! -
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Deacon and Kronos Quartet's App Collab, 'Four Phases of Conflict,' @ Lincoln Center Out of Doors [iPhone PHOTOS]
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BREAKING: U.K.'s 'Independent on Sunday' Reportedly Axes its Critics
The role of reviewers in today's society has been further degraded today by the U.K.'s Independent On Sunday newspaper, which has--our colleague Norman Lebrecht reports at his Slipped Disc blog--just made almost all of its critics...
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