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BBC Report of Sexist Dissent at Marin Alsop's Last Night Proms is Wrong...Right?

There's an odd comment in a BBC report on the South Bank Center new season launch. Referring to the comments of SBC boss Jude Kelly that the classical music business is still weighted against women -- in many ways a fair comment and one that has been widely reported
The Column: Renée Fleming's National Anthem at Superbowl XLVIII...What Controversy?

What's the fuss all about? The U.S. morning news bulletins are full of the news that, shock, horror, "Opera singer to sing national anthem at Superbowl." And? And yet the news teams (news!) are earnestly discussing the rights and wrongs of the decision to invite Renée Fleming
Gergiev, Nelsons, Gilbert or Alsop...Who is the World’s Busiest Conductor?

Some interesting statistics, yes, from the U.K.-based music website Bachtrack. Every year, they compile the stats from the events they have listed, and the list for 2013 has Valery Gergiev as the world's busiest conductor. Andris Nelsons comes second.
Classicalite Recording News: Extreme Mozart Opera Recordings from Teodor Currentzis on Sony Classical

No compromise operas, an exciting-sounding concept. They say that the creation of art is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. Conductor Teodor Currentzis clearly believes this to be so, or at the very least that they must come together.
The Column: Are Live Broadcasts Good for Classical Music?

Classicalite wants to know. Really. Not every question has a ready-made answer. Not every answer to the same question will be identical. I have a question, and I don't know the answer, nor do I know whether the answer will be different in different places.
Birtwistle, Adès, Turnage...Oliver Knussen: Who Will Replace Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen's Music?

Who is first in line for the high-profile job you can't apply for? The U.K.'s Sunday Telegraph has some ideas, as does Classicalite's James Inverne.
Violinist Nicola Benedetti Reveals Pressures from "Cut-Throat" Music Industry on BBC [AUDIO]

Joining various other prominent competition winners, Benedetti, who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year title in 2004 and has often been the U.K.'s highest-selling classical musician, has told BBC Radio Four that she was pushed too hard, too fast in the aftermath...
The Short Column: Classical Music Benefits Kids, A(nother) Study Says

So, here we go again--another year, another survey saying that classical music is good for kids. This one comes from the Institute of Education at the University of London. Children aged between seven and 10 were exposed to classical music at school assembly and a series..
Conductors in Conversation, No. 1: Manfred Honeck

The first in a new series of conductor interviews finds James Inverne talking Strauss, sonic character and method acting with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's music director.
The Column: Five Great Modern Operas That the New York Times Music Staff Missed!

The New York Times has published an interesting piece, their classical music writers giving their thumbs-ups to the modern operas they consider the most likely candidates for perennial popularity. Which, in opera terms, means at least a production every year or two...
Foreign Policy: When U.S. Customs Smashed Boujemaa Razgui's 11 Nay Flutes...the Other Side of the Story

Let nobody say that both sides of a story never get an airing. The news that 11 rare flutes had been destroyed by U.S. customs officials has been greeted with horror by the music community. The instruments belonged to the Canadian musician Boujemaa Razgui. Yet, U.S. customs believes they acted correctly. And they have stated their case.
Classicalite's Five Best: Characters, Then and Now, for Whom Classical Music Was a Passion...Not Just Sherlock!

With the triumphant return of the BBC's Sherlock to our screens, following his supposed death at Reichenbach, the series everyone is talking about prompts another thought for classical fans. It is an ongoing characteristic of Arthur Conan Doyle's books about his great...
Katherine Jenkins, Simon Rattle Among Those Named in U.K.'s New Year's Honors List

The U.K.'s New Year's Honors List has been announced. Apart from the fact that more women than men have been honored for the first time ever, it is notable for some worthy ladies and gentlemen of the arts. A good batch in the main, this year.
Classicalite's Top 10 of 2013: James Inverne on the Headlines

Any year brings its share of joy, sadness, triumphs, tragedies and just plain weirdnesses. We journalists are there to document them all. And yet we enjoy a good story, or feel emotion at a heart-wrenching one, as much as anyone, so in looking back at 2013 these are what
Israeli Baritone Turned Conductor Dan Ettinger Named Music Director of Stuttgart Philharmonic

Dan Ettinger has been appointed the new music director of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. Not bad for someone who started as a baritone, in his native Israel.
Ceiling Collapse at London's Apollo Theater, Dozens Wounded

The Apollo Theater in Shaftesbury Avenue, one of the West End's most admired and busiest venues, has suffered a disaster almost without parallel in recent Theatreland history
CONFIRMED: La Scala's Next Post-Barenboim Conductor Will Be…Riccardo Chailly

There will be cheers and champagne today, after confirmation that Chailly will, in fact, take over in Milan come 2015.
The Column: Royal Opera's New 'Parsifal' is a Radical and Truly Visionary Production

It may have divided opinion, but Classicalite's contributing editor was riveted by Covent Garden's big new production for Wagner's anniversary year.
Sir Simon Rattle Coming Home to the U.K. (with the Berlin Phil) for His 60th

Simon Rattle is coming home for his 60th birthday, in 2015. And he's bringing his German orchestra with him (a little band called the Berlin Philharmonic, you might have heard of them). Together, they will celebrate the milestone in a week-long joint London residency...
Russian-British Pianist Evgeny Kissin, Backed by Natan Sharansky, Becoming Israeli Citizen

Russian-Brit superstar pianist Evgeny Kissin will become an Israeli citizen on Saturday, December 7, 2013. He has received the personal backing of another prominent Russian (now leading Israeli politician), Natan Sharansky...
IMG Artists Invests Hundreds of Millions in China Projects, Including Classical Music Reality TV

Classical music reality TV has been tried in the Western world already. Sometimes with great success. The BBC’s 'The Choir,' for instance, and some years ago 'Classical Star' are considered successes. And American conductors from Toscanini to Leonard Bernstein to Michael..
José Carreras, 66, Returning to Opera in Christian Kolonovits' 'El Juez' at Bilbao

He was never exactly in the vanguard of new writing, but the news of José Carreras' return to opera with a new work--'El Juez' by Christian Kolonovits, after a story by Angelika Messner--is doubly surprising. Most surprising, perhaps...
Classicalite Recording News: The Decca Sound Dead in the U.S. as Universal Music Classics is Born

How to interpret the news that Universal is to drop the Decca company name in the United States? The first thing to say is that it's not as bad as it looks at first glance. The second thing is that, in fact, it might even indicate that...
Frédéric Chaslin Plays Beethoven's First with Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, iPad Turns Pages

An interesting development from Jerusalem. At the season-opening concert of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra on October 31, the band's music director, Frédéric Chaslin, started the proceedings at the piano to play Beethoven...
Classicalite's Five Best: Books on Music

How to pluck just five books from libraries and libraries of writing about music? Just close your eyes, and decide which seem obvious. These seem obvious to me...
LIVESTREAM: Julian Jacobson Playing All 32 Beethoven Sonatas in a Single Day

Pianist Julian Jacobson's amazing Beethoven marathon in London is available, for free, via Livestream.
Wagnerian (and Eurovision) Tenor René Kollo, 75, Calls Time

He's 75, so René Kollo has decided that enough is enough. Wagner tenors--real, top-quality Wagner tenors--are few enough in number that when one decides to retire, it doesn't go unnoticed.
Haymarket Media Group Sells Gramophone Magazine to Mark Allen Publishing

One of the most respected and influential brands in classical music will be leaving one of Britain's highest-profile media owners--but this could be a move that works.
Classicalite's Five Best: Halloween Recordings

What qualifies as classical music's scariest works and recordings? OK, there are two ways to write this story. Take one: a chilling trawl through a clutch of the spookiest classical works for Halloween.
Osvaldo Golijov, Thomas Adès Writing Operas for the Met...Could This be Golijov’s Moment?

As the Metropolitan Opera reveals, via the New York Times, that new operas are on the way from Thomas Adès and Osvaldo Golijov, one can reflect on both. If English composer Adès has been sparing with his vocal works, few recent...