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1 week, 4 days ago

Zildjian brand cymbals are everywhere. But how they're made is a 400-year secret.

NPR

Zildjian brand cymbals are everywhere. What's less known is that the Zildjian family has been making their famous cymbals with a secret process for more than 400 years. ANDREA SHEA, BYLINE: Even here in Massachusetts, a lot of people have no idea an industrial factory outside of Boston casts, blasts, rolls, hammers, buffs and tests at least a million Zildjian …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Best classical concerts of 2024 were from youth orchestras

LA Times

Out of hundreds of symphony concerts I attended or listened to online this year, performances of three symphonies meant the most. In late July, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA National Festival program hosted an appearance of the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela, the pride of the country’s vaunted public music education program known as El Sistema. Musicians …

Music Youth Performance Orchestra Hall Symphony Youth Orchestra

1 month ago

2024 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

Daily Mail

Album of the Year Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again Kylie Minogue - Tension Royel Otis - PRATTS & PAIN Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other Best Solo Artist Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again Dom Dolla - Saving Up Emma Donovan - Till My Song …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Phil and Gabriela Ortiz earn Grammy nominations for ‘Revolución Diamantina’

LA Times

Recordings by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic nabbed six 2025 Grammy nominations Friday, with Dudamel and the orchestra picking one up for orchestral performance for their work on composer Gabriela Ortiz’s “Revolución Diamantina.” That first full-length album of orchestral works by Ortiz racked up several nods, including one for contemporary classical composition, an award given to the composer. …

Performance Classical Orchestra Grammy Phil Symphony Dudamel

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Traditional with a twist

China Daily

Jiang Jianhua, 63, is a celebrated erhu virtuoso, who will be in concert in Beijing on Friday. "I want those with a general idea of the erhu to put aside their impressions, and I hope those who have never seen an erhu concert will get to know the instrument with a fresh eye," says Jiang Jianhua, an erhu player. In …

Concert Erhu Jiang Chamber Music

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Traditional with a twist

China Daily

Jiang Jianhua, 63, is a celebrated erhu virtuoso, who will be in concert in Beijing on Friday. "I want those with a general idea of the erhu to put aside their impressions, and I hope those who have never seen an erhu concert will get to know the instrument with a fresh eye," says Jiang Jianhua, an erhu player. In …

Concert Erhu Chamber Music Music Jiang

6 months ago

New Music Friday: The best albums out June 21 : All Songs Considered

NPR

New Music Friday: The best albums out June 21 The first half of 2024 has been stuffed with blockbuster albums, and as we reach the midpoint of the year, we've got one more to add to the list. On this week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered, Hazel Cills and Anamaria Sayre discuss the new album from …

New Music Best Album

6 months ago

Kate Nash gets personal on her first album in six years

The Independent

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Album Sounds Our Weekly Guide Track Vocals Kehlani Nash

9 months ago

Taking up the baton

China Daily

Yu Lu conducts Beethoven's nine symphonies in five consecutive days, with the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, in 2020. When the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, one of the world's leading symphony orchestras, announced its 2024-25 season on Sunday, a young Chinese conductor, Yu Lu, was featured in its program as a guest conductor. According to the conductor, the orchestra planned to have him …

Orchestra Conductor Yu Lu Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

9 months ago

Taking up the baton

China Daily

Yu Lu conducts Beethoven's nine symphonies in five consecutive days, with the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, in 2020. When the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, one of the world's leading symphony orchestras, announced its 2024-25 season on Sunday, a young Chinese conductor, Yu Lu, was featured in its program as a guest conductor. According to the conductor, the orchestra planned to have him …

Orchestra Conductor Yu Lu Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

9 months ago

Taking up the baton

China Daily

Yu Lu conducts Beethoven's nine symphonies in five consecutive days, with the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, in 2020. When the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, one of the world's leading symphony orchestras, announced its 2024-25 season on Sunday, a young Chinese conductor, Yu Lu, was featured in its program as a guest conductor. According to the conductor, the orchestra planned to have him …

Orchestra Conductor Yu Lu Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

9 months ago

Taking up the baton

China Daily

Yu and his mentor, Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. In 2002, when Yu's father played a video of Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa at the New Year's Concert in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, Yu, 13 years old then, conducted again while watching the video. He is a talented conductor who prepares his scores thoroughly, has a clear technique, and …

Music China Japan Japanese Ozawa Orchestra Conductor

9 months ago

Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off new season with free concert in Amsterdam

NL Times

The Concertgebouw Orchestra will open the 2024/2025 season on September 13 with a free, open-access concert in the middle of Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer, in Nelson Mandela Park. The orchestra also kicked off the new cultural season earlier with open-air performances in the capital, for example, on Dam Square. The now 28-year-old Finn will also conduct the orchestra several times during the …

Concert Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra

10 months, 1 week ago

Finding harmony at last in ‘Maestro’

LA Times

In “Maestro,” Leonard Bernstein conducts an inspiring rendition of Mahler’s “Resurrection” inside London’s historic Ely Cathedral. The music romanticizes a swirl of emotion, tuning viewers into Bernstein’s love for conducting, but more so, his love for his wife, Felicia, whom he passionately embraces upon realizing she’s in attendance. In creating the lifting sequence that reconnects them, cinematographer Matthew Libatique lit …

Bernstein

1 year ago

Wuxi Symphony Orchestra to debut soon

China Daily

Wuxi Symphony Orchestra's debut performance is announced. The Wuxi Symphony Orchestra in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is set to give its debut performance on Jan 1, 2024, to welcome the New Year, organizers said at a news conference on Dec 12. Directed by artistic director and chief conductor Lin Daye, the New Year concert will feature performances by world-class pianist Denis …

Performance Orchestra New Year Wuxi Symphony Orchestra Soon Wuxi

1 year ago

Wuxi Symphony Orchestra to debut soon

China Daily

Wuxi Symphony Orchestra's debut performance is announced. The Wuxi Symphony Orchestra in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is set to give its debut performance on Jan 1, 2024, to welcome the New Year, organizers said at a news conference on Dec 12. Directed by artistic director and chief conductor Lin Daye, the New Year concert will feature performances by world-class pianist Denis …

Performance Wuxi Orchestra New Year Wuxi Symphony Orchestra

1 year, 3 months ago

Project honors Austrian composer

China Daily

The China NCPA Orchestra opens its 2023-24 season with two concerts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Aug 31 and Sept 1. For the past three performing seasons, the China NCPA Orchestra, led by its music director and conductor Lyu Jia, has been playing symphonies by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. On Aug 31 and …

China Season Orchestra Composer Lyu Ncpa Concerts

1 year, 3 months ago

Project honors Austrian composer

China Daily

The China NCPA Orchestra opens its 2023-24 season with two concerts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Aug 31 and Sept 1. For the past three performing seasons, the China NCPA Orchestra, led by its music director and conductor Lyu Jia, has been playing symphonies by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. On Aug 31 and …

China Season Orchestra Composer Lyu Ncpa Concerts

1 year, 7 months ago

Tom Hanks wonders if people will care when AI takes place of actors

LA Times

Tom Hanks knows artificial intelligence could have his likeness appearing in movies long after he’s gone. Buxton asked Hanks if he would place legal restrictions on “who gets to use AI in order to re-create a Tom Hanks performance” when the Oscar winner is no longer acting. “This is something that is literally part and parcel to what’s going on …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the free-thinker

Hindustan Times

The Würzburg Mozart Festival's artistic director, Evelyn Meining, wanted to focus the 2022 edition on innovative and boundary-pushing elements. In this episode, we'll listen to Andrew Manze conducting the Bamberg Symphony performing Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D, at the opening concert of the 2022 Würzburg Mozart Festival on May 21. Würzburg festival director Evelyn Meining tells us more: "Mozart's father, …

Festival Music France Concert Paris Piece Mozart

1 year, 10 months ago

Ezra Miller: Everything we know about the controversial star of The Flash

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While filming …Perks, the actor was detained by police after being …

Film Independent Woman Free Miller Hawaii Actor

1 year, 11 months ago

Tár might win Cate Blanchett her third Academy Award, but few have seen the psychological drama about a conductor coming undone

ABC

Tár scored an impressive six Oscar nominations at today's announcement, including one for our very own Cate Blanchett — for the role that writer-director Todd Field created specifically for her. Our critic Keva York wrote: "Although I would argue that Tár is not a polemic but a psychodrama, it's nevertheless true that the film is wilfully enigmatic." Peter Bradshaw in …

Film Power Movie This Film Win Told Hours

2 years, 1 month ago

Composer of note given a global stage

China Daily

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs a concert under the baton of conductor Zhang Lu, featuring music pieces by composer Zhu Jianer, to mark the 100th anniversary of Zhu's birth. New books by renowned musicologist help elevate Zhu Jianer to his rightful place among the pantheon of 20th-century musical greats, Chen Nan reports. Two of the students took the musicologist to …

China Chinese Composer Zhu Robison Symphonies Zhu Jianer

2 years, 1 month ago

Composer of note given a global stage

China Daily

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs a concert under the baton of conductor Zhang Lu, featuring music pieces by composer Zhu Jianer, to mark the 100th anniversary of Zhu's birth. New books by renowned musicologist help elevate Zhu Jianer to his rightful place among the pantheon of 20th-century musical greats, Chen Nan reports. Two of the students took the musicologist to …

China Chinese Composer Zhu Robison Symphonies Zhu Jianer

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Zildjian brand cymbals are everywhere. But how they're made is a 400-year secret.

Best classical concerts of 2024 were from youth orchestras

2024 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Phil and Gabriela Ortiz earn Grammy nominations for ‘Revolución Diamantina’

Traditional with a twist

Traditional with a twist

New Music Friday: The best albums out June 21 : All Songs Considered

Kate Nash gets personal on her first album in six years

Taking up the baton

Taking up the baton

Taking up the baton

Taking up the baton

Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off new season with free concert in Amsterdam

Finding harmony at last in ‘Maestro’

Wuxi Symphony Orchestra to debut soon

Wuxi Symphony Orchestra to debut soon

Project honors Austrian composer

Project honors Austrian composer

Tom Hanks wonders if people will care when AI takes place of actors

Celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the free-thinker

Ezra Miller: Everything we know about the controversial star of The Flash

Tár might win Cate Blanchett her third Academy Award, but few have seen the psychological drama about a conductor coming undone

Composer of note given a global stage

Composer of note given a global stage