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This year's Super Bowl featured soprano heavyweight Renee Fleming singing the Star-Spangled Banner to open the game. Now, another world-renowned opera singer has taken the stage at a major sporting event, marking the second major opera appearance this year. -
Canada's Musicworks Magazine Announces 2013 Electronic Music Composition and "Sonic Geography" Writing Winners, Margaret Noble and Caitlin Smith
Musicworks magazine, Canada's foremost publication for "curious ears," recently picked winners for its 2013 Electronic Music Composition and "Sonic Geography" Writing contests. -
Composer Charlotte Bray Sells New Work, Bar-by-Bar, for Music in the Round Residency
An interesting article over at The Guardian reports on Brit composer Charlotte Bray's novel idea for fundraising her latest piece. She is selling it. One bar at a time. -
QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Your Black Classical Music History?
As Classicalite's favorite classical music radio station reminded us, the historian Carter G. Woodson chose the second week of February in 1926 to be deemed "Negro History Week" because the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14) occurred... -
Three People Arrested in Connection with Theft of Stradivarius Violin from Frank Almond of Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Milwaukee County prosecutors say that three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of the "Ex-Lipiński" Stradivarius violin, FoxNews.com reported earlier today. Two men, ages 36 and 41, and a 32-year-old woman were arrested by Milwaukee police on the -
Riccardo Muti Extends Contract as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Through 2020
Maestro Riccardo Muti's deeply rewarding artistic collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will continue beyond next season. Muti announced on Monday that he will extend his tenure as music director of the CSO through 2020. -
Dancing Without the Band: Hit Television Show 'Dancing With the Stars' Fires Live Orchestra, Replaced by Dubstep DJs?
The Dancing With the Stars band--known as the Harold Wheeler Orchestra and Singers--have been sent their final notice to pack up and move out. Instead of paying for a big band ensemble, the producers of DWTS have announced that they will replace the group with a "small -
The Column: Keep Calm and...Toi, Toi, Toi?
A Yiddish expression adopted by musicians worldwide. People ask me what have I learned, since starting a classical music consultancy company, that I didn't know when I was "just" a journalist. -
VIDEO: Renée Fleming Brings Down the 2014 Super Bowl House, Announces Juilliard Seminar
And Fleming won't stop there. To contend for Classicalite's "Busiest Opera Singer of the Year" award, she will hold a two-hour master class at her alma mater, the Juilliard School, on February 13. -
Composers Mason Bates and Anna Clyne on Re-Imagining the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW Series
The audience at a Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW concert is in for a vastly different experience than is the norm at most other CSO concerts. MusicNOW, curated by Mason Bates and fellow CSO composer-in-residence Anna Clyne, is the CSO’s nationally recognized and... -
Read This Before Applying to Music School: Some Thoughts on the Conservatory Experience
Despite the long odds of making a living as a professional musician, many parents are encouraging their children to major in music in college. This encouragement is so often is based on the students' desire to major in music, regardless of their actual level of talent. -
Classicalite's Five Best: Classical Musical Families...It's Not Just Roberto and Aleksandra!
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