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Classicalite Recording News: Universal, Sony, Warner and More Join Law Suit Against SiriusXM Satellite Radio
SiriusXM has been hit by a combined lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by the big beast record companies. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Capitol Records and the indie company ABKCO Music & Records, Inc... -
Claudio Abbado, Citing Ill Health, Pulls Out of Japanese Tour
Claudio Abbado, generally considered as one of the world's most profoundly insightful conductors, has had his serious health problems in recent years. Which makes the news that the 80-year-old maestro has pulled out of the upcoming... -
Yoav Talmi is the Old/New Music Director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra
A third shot at a job, and it's about time to get it right. Not that Israeli conductor Yoav Talmi got it wrong the last two times, but the band he's just taken on again as now three-time music director, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, has... -
Classicalite's Five Best: Classical Music and Movie Trivia
Strange facts about music and the movies, from 'Moonstruck' to Dalek conductors to Pavarotti not winning a Golden Raspberry. -
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... -
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! -
Comedian Stephen Fry Co-Curates Royal Opera House's Deloitte Ignite Verdi/Wagner Festival
Stephen Fry is the latest British comedian to declare his love for the classics, with this year's ROH's Deloitte Ignite Fest. -
Here are Gramophone Magazine's Classical Music Awards for 2013
Gramophone, which has been a scion of the classical music world since its establishment in 1923, has announced its latest round of awards--which, in turn, are perhaps the most-respected prizes the industry offers... -
Julie Harris, Star of Stage (and Screen), Dead at 87
Julie Harris, the diminutive actress who won five Tony Awards for her stage performances and was also honored for her work in television and film, died on Saturday at age 87, a Massachusetts funeral home said... -
Marian McPartland, Longtime Host of NPR's "Piano Jazz" and "First Lady of Jazz," Dead at 95
Marian McPartland, a British musician who hosted a jazz program on National Public Radio for more than four decades, has died at age 95, NPR said on its website... -
Aspen President Alan Fletcher Tells It Like It is in Minnesota Keynote [TRANSCRIPT]
"I know from intense personal experience how hard that will be. I had to sit at a table, over and over again, with people who had wanted me to be fired." -- Alan Fletcher, CEO of Aspen Music Festival and School... -
Five Freebies: Muti's Verdi, 'Noye's Fludde,' Beethoven, David Aaron Carpenter, Domingo's Verdi
It's always nice to get something for nothing, especially something as enriching as great music. And outreach projects increasingly mean that there are amazing freebies to be had. We've collated five of the best current and upcoming... -
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... -
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... -
UPDATE: Sergei Filin Returning to Bolshoi Ballet After Acid Attack
Sergei Filin, the artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet who nearly lost his sight when a masked attacker threw acid in his face six months ago, said on Thursday he hoped to be back at work next month...
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