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Michael Ciufo live in our Concert Lobbyarrow icon

Posted February 2nd, 2012 by webmaster

Michael Ciufo joined us live in our Concert Lobby on February 1st, 2012. It was a wonderful way to start a month of live performances here at the New Classical 96.3fm.

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The English National Opera has announced a new award for conductors in honour of their former music director Sir Charles Mackerras.
- Gramophone

Soprano Angela Meade has been named the seventh recipient of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Artist Award.
- Gramophone

Andrew McCandless, TSO's principle trumpeter honoured his childhood music teacher by naming his son after him.
- The Toronto Star

Audiences flock to 'difficult' contemporary classical music. What used to be considered elitist and impenetrable is becoming the draw for new classical audiences.
- The Guardian

Pop artist Will.i.am, best known for his work the The Black Eyed Peas, told Capital FM that he has recently recorded a classical song with singer Nicole Scherzinger (formerly a member of the Pussycat Dolls).
- Capital FM

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

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