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Alejandro Vela in the Concert Lobbyarrow icon

Posted January 26th, 2012 by webmaster

Alejandro Vela joined us in our concert lobby on January 25, 2012.

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The Miraculous Mandarin, Bartok's pantomime ballet, was banned in Germany after its first performance. This hasn't kept the TSO from bringing it to Toronto.
- The Globe & Mail

The Miraculous Mandarin, Bartok's pantomime ballet, was banned in Germany after its first performance. This hasn't kept the TSO from bringing it to Toronto.
- The Globe & Mail

Neil Gittleman, conductor of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, stopped a performance and asked that a crying child be removed from the venue.
- Dayton Daily News

The nominees for the Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday. Nominations for best original score include: Ludovic Bource (The Artist), Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy), Howard Shore (Hugo) and John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse). Williams' two nominations make him the most nominated composer in the Academy's history.
- The Film Music Soceity

Mezzo-soprano Rita Gorr died on Sunday in Spain at the age of 85. She made her debut in 1949 in Wagner’s "Die Walküre."
- Gramophone

The beautiful Stradivari Cello that had been played by Bernard Greenhouse, a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, for the past fifty years was sold for a record sum last week. The new owner, only identified as a patron of Montreal's art community, has lent the instrument to 18-year-old Stéphane Tétreault.
- The New York Times

A Shostakovich violin sonata fragment that was discovered after the composer's death, given its UK premier last night at University of Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre.
- Gramophone

The New York City Opera has come to a tentative deal with its unions to end a lockout that began earlier this month.
- The Wall Street Journal

Opera season in 2013 in Toronto sees return of Robert Carsen and Atom Egoyan
- The Toronto Star

A very generous gift to early music students at Julliard will be announced later today. The magnanimous gift is welcomed by a community of musicians who often struggle to make ends meet.
- The New York Times

Classical musicians test ways to appeal to younger audiences with a new event called Pulse that mixes classical and electronic music.
- The Miami Herald

A newly discovered piece by Brahms will be broadcast on BBC 3 later this month.
- Gramophone

With the Washington National Opera recently pledging to support the creation of new American operas, Anne Widget of the Washington Post asks what is American opera?
- The Washington Post

In an initiative to keep garbages off the streets of Taiwan, people are asked to bring their trash (and recycling and food waste) out to the garbage collectors rather than leaving it on the curb. To alert citizens that the truck is nearby, they play classical music out of loud speakers.
- The Huffington Post

Alexis Weissenberg, Pianist of Fire and Ice, Dies at 82
- The New York Times

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