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"Having an opinion is not enough." -- Iestyn Davies The recent revelation that the Independent on Sunday is shuttering its own arts coverage for a sourced digest of other critics has not just journalists worried. -
Violinist Gidon Kremer to Stage Protest Concert Aimed at Putin’s Russia
Protest concerts aren't exactly a new phenomenon in the classical world (Kremer apparently calls this a concert in support of Russians rather than a protest--which seems like semantics to us). Here are three from the past few years... -
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 -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Canadian Musicians Protest Perform Paul Wade's 'Requiem for a Glacier' Atop B.C.'s Mt. Farnham
When orchestra musicians want to protest about something, you just try stopping them, no matter how remote the location! Planners behind a mooted ski resort in Canada discovered this last weekend, when 50 musicians hiked up the Farnham... -
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... -
Commissioned by the BBC Proms: An Historical Playlist
From Rachmaninov's first 'Piano Concerto' in October of 1900, to the Britten 'Piano Concerto' on August 18, 1938, native son James Inverne picks a more studied Classicalite's Five Best... -
FREE DOWNLOAD: Lost Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden Collaboration, 'Roman Wall Blues,' Recorded by NMC
Recent years have seen the bringing to light of long-lost works by a storied list of composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, and Joseph Martin Kraus among them--but surely none had such serendipitous timing as the turning up of... -
Classicalite Recording News: EMI Classical and Virgin Classics Taken Over by Warner Brothers
Well that was the worst-kept secret in the classical music world! EMI Classical and its sister label Virgin Classics are to be spun out of the recent Universal Music takeover, and will be rolled in to Warner Music. How important is this...
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