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Posted May 2nd, 2012 by webmaster

Cellist Mischa Maisky will be live in our Concert Lobby on May 2, 2012 from 12 to 1PM.

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Scientists Gary Marcus and Geoffrey Miller debate whether music is an adaptation that evolved in humans or if it was a cultural invention.
- The Atlantic

New York-based Shen Yun have asked for an apology after the "unprofessional and humiliating treatment" they received at Calgary's Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
- The Globe and Mail

For the first time in over 20 years, the Chicago Orchestra returns to Russia. Conductor Riccardo Muti, has choosen pieces that will be familiar to a Russian audience. The orchestra will play music by Soviet composer Shostakovich.
- Reuters

Composer Kevin Puts has won the Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, Silent Night. The work premiered last fall at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul. Silent Night is primarily set on Christmas Eve 1914 in the trenches of a Belgian Battlefield.
- NPR

Chief music critic for the Times, Richard Morrison, asks which is the best musical instrument in an article for Intelligent Life.
- Intelligent Life

Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera's general manager discusses (and defends) the Met's upcoming production of Wagner's "Ring" Cycle. The New York Times' Anthony Tommasini speaks to Gelb and adds insights of his own in his latest editorial.
- The New York Times

The SPCO in Minnesota announced a new membership program that would allow members to see an unlimited number of performances for only $5 a month. Jessica Etten, the orchestra's senior director of marketing and communications explains how they could afford a program like this:
- twincities.com

Tonight composer Eric Whitacre's 'Virtual Choir 3' will be unveiled at the Lincoln Centre in New York. His third piece involved the largest online choir in the world with over 3700 voices from over 70 countries singing.
- Gramophone

Toronto born pianist Stewart Goodyear has planned to play all of Beethoven's sonatas in a single day. The feat will be accomplished on June 9 as part of the Luminato Festival.
- The National Post

The Los Angeles Times profiles composer Jennifer Higdon and her goal of making her work accessible to all listeners.
- Los Angeles Times

Researches in Japan have found that classical music may help reduce rejections of heart transplants in mice.
- Miller-McCune

Viol player Jordi Savall will receive the York Early Music Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Gramophone

The National Symphony Orchestra of North Korea is working on a tour of the United states, with the help of a humanitarian group. It would be the first time that a large performance ensemble from North Korea would come to the United States.
- Washington Post

Improbable research: The highs and lows of the musical eyebrow. Danish and American researchers studied the facial expressions of people while they were singing. They found a correlation between high pitches and raised eyebrows.
- The Guardian

Birmingham Opera Company has announced that they will be staging Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht (Wednesday from Light) during the London 2012 festival. Wednesday from Light may be one of the most challenging operas to stage: it is five hours long and requires helicopters, two choirs, octophonic sound and numerous other performers and to top that off - two separate performance halls. This will be the first time that all six parts will be staged together.
- The Guardian

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