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OWL CITY has teamed up with RollingStone.com to debut the music video for his latest single "Beautiful Times (ft. Lindsey Stirling)" today. You can view the video here! The premiere comes just in time for tomorrow's digital release of the multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer's new digital EP, Ultraviolet [Republic Records]. Ultraviolet is now available for pre-order now on iTunes. -
Who Will Succeed the Departing Mariss Jansons at the Royal Concertgebouw?
Mariss Jansons is to leave the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, once dubbed by Gramophone as "the world's best orchestra". Who can follow him? -
RESULTS: The International Opera Awards 2014 Are Announced, Posthumous Prize for Gerard Mortier
The venerable Opera magazine has announced the winners of its still-rather-new annual awards, the "Operas" (think Oscars but with more singing and a smaller budget). Since Opera has been the bible for international opera reviews for many decades, it's a nice idea and one that makes... -
Royal Opera 2014/15 Season Announced: Includes Weill's Mahagonny, Domingo Hat-Trick, Kaufmann Chenier and Anna Nicole
The U.K.'s Royal Opera has announced details of its 2014/15 season. There are seven new main-house productions including a new opera from Philip Glass, a final bow for the classic John Copley La Boheme and a welcome return for Mark Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole. -
Classicalite's Five Best: Biggest YouTube Music Hitters
Ah, YouTube. Repository of some of the finest classical rarities just waiting to be chanced upon by some digital adventurer. But YouTube has its classical blockbusters as well -- videos that have attracted a critical mass of page views. They're not always the most obvious. Sometimes indeed the performers aren't even known. But here are five of the most-viewed classical videos we could find... -
LINKS: Ryan Gosling as Busby Berkeley, Andrea Bocelli Gets Lifetime Billboard, Jersey's #OrchestraYOU, Cadenza App, Hanson Records
Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned 'Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley' by Jeffrey Spivak for an adaptation to be produced by Ryan Gosling and Marc Platt. And the plan, at least for now, is for Gosling to both star in and direct the biopic about the man behind the golden age of Hollywood musicals. -
LINKS: L’Wren Scott Suicide, Big Data on 'Lion King,' Jazz in Little Rock Parks, Stooge Scott Asheton Dies, American Ballet Theatre in California
As New York Daily News reports: Scott was found hanging from a doorknob Monday morning after her assistant responded to a text from the designer, who was found fully clothed and without a note. Mick Jagger is said to be ‘completely shocked and devastated’ by her death. -
LINKS: Kobe Bryant's Piano, Kiri Te Kanawa Quits, Kyle Gann on Robert Ashley, Worst Classical Album Covers, Hallucinated Music
"My collection of masterpieces just hit a crescendo of domination." -- Kobe Bryant Be it classical music, jazz, theater, dance, art, films or books, news gets made fresh every single day. -
Why Elton John and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' Will Work as an Animated Film
The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is to be turned into an animated film. This won't be the first before-the-cameras version of the popular show. In 1999 Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Richard Attenborough and Maria Freidman... -
LINKS: V. Vale's 'Melancholic Hope,' Commissioned by the Bar, Greatest Jazz Films Ever, When Philip Glass Met Ravi Shankar, 'At the Ballet' Movie
Once again, a mere 99 cents gets you the latest piano piece, 'Melancholic Hope,' from the founder of RE/Search Publications. Composed for a friend whose mother had just passed away, these seven minutes from V. Vale are what I'd want to hear should heaven ever allow me entry. -
LINKS: Memphis Symphony Done?, 'Spider-Man' Actor Sues, End of 'Destination: Out,' Stockhausen's Murdered Mother, Ranking Sports TV Songs
According to the Memphis Business Journal, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra has announced that it is facing a financial crisis, requiring "aggressive steps" to complete the current season. -
Classicalite's Five Best: Classical Musical Families...It's Not Just Roberto and Aleksandra!
The news that Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak have had a little tenorino--and congrats to them--prompts us to look at a few other musical family ties. Presenting, then, Classicalite's Five Best...Classical Music Families.
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