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MUNICH -- Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was dropped by his management company Sunday over his ties to Russia President Vladimir Putin.The 68-year-old Russian had been represented since December 2020 by Munich-based Marcus Felsner, who started his own management company that year after leaving Opus3.“In the light of the criminal war waged by the Russian regime against the democratic and independent nation of Ukraine, and against the European open society as a whole, it has become impossible for us, and clearly unwelcome, to defend the interests of Maestro Gergiev,” Felsner said in a statement.Gergiev is the music director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, and its White Nights Festival, as well as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic.

NEW YORK -- Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter has threatened to remove Valery Gergiev as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic unless Gergiev publicly says by Monday that he does not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The 68-year-old Russian conductor is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and supported Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.“I have made my position clear to Valery Gergiev and have asked him to clearly and unequivocally distance himself from the brutal invasion that Putin is waging against Ukraine and now in particular against our twin city, Kyiv,” Reiter said in a statement Thursday. “If Valery Gergiev does not take a clear stance by Monday, he can no longer remain chief conductor of our philharmonic.”Gergiev has been Munich's chief conductor since the 2015-16 season.

Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor and longtime supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, will not take the stage at Carnegie Hall with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra as planned this weekend, with a spokeswoman for the famed venue explaining that the change “was made due to recent world events.”

South Park favourite to be re-recorded with a group of Broadway stars and a 30-piece orchestra to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary – you can watch the performance below.Arranged by Broadway veteran Stephen Oremus, the new rendition once again features singers Nikki Renee Daniels, Tamar Greene, Jeff Kready and Elizabeth Stanley. “I like it,” Stan adds at the end of the clip, with Kenny murmuring in agreement.“I was thrilled to get to reimagine these South Park classics in a more traditional orchestral concert setting,” Oremus previously told The Hollywood Reporter.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe Hollywood Bowl’s 2022 summer season will include a three-night stand by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees Duran Duran, a fireworks-laden 4th of July engagement by the comedy/bluegrass team of Steve Martin and Martin Short, a Loggins & Messina reunion, a fully staged production of Cyndi Lauper’s Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” and a salute to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee that will feature Billie Eilish and Debbie Harry, among others.Artists with shows on the summer agenda include Ricky Martin, Pentatonix, Sheryl Crow, Diana Ross, CHVRCHES, John Fogerty, A-ha, Grace Jones, John Fogerty, UB40, A.R. Rahman, Lang Lang, Pink Martini, the Gipsy Kings, Boyz II Men and TLC.As always, the LA Philharmonic may be the biggest star on the lineup, with 34 shows scheduled, 10 of which will be under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel.

NEW YORK -- After enduring repeated COVID-19 testing and a 5,400-mile (8690-kilometer) flight from London to become the first international symphony to tour the United States in 23 months, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in California to discover some brass had not.“The cargo people messed up one of the pallets, so a load of the instruments didn’t arrive,” co-principal horn Matthew Knight said. “Our trumpet section had to borrow trumpets from Yamaha and do the first concert on those — and then rent or buy tails, because all their tails were in the box.”With their own instruments and evening clothes in hand, the Royal Philharmonic completed a 14-concert, nine-city U.S.

Jon Burlingame editorFrom the opening frames of HBO’s series “The Gilded Age,” the music of composers Harry Gregson-Williams and Rupert Gregson-Williams gives viewers a sense of the ambition and drive of “new money” in conflict with the “old money” of 1880s New York.The brothers — Harry based in Los Angeles, Rupert just outside London — generally work on different projects, and most often for features (Harry’s credits include “The Martian” and “The Last Duel,” while Rupert’s include “Wonder Woman” and “Aquaman”).But both are past Emmy nominees (“Electric Dreams” for Harry, “The Crown” for Rupert) and this is their second TV collaboration, after 2019’s Hulu series “Catch-22.” Given the sheer volume of music demanded by “The Gilded Age,” nearly six hours for the 10 episodes, they were happy to reunite professionally. “It was good to have two sets of hands on it,” says Harry.

AMSTERDAM -- Amsterdam's Concertgebouw orchestra played second fiddle Wednesday to a pair of hairdressers. Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits were briefly upstaged by a nail salon and barber as civil disobedience to protest the Dutch coronavirus lockdown spread Wednesday to the cultural sector.The Netherlands has been in a tough lockdown since mid-December.

NEW YORK -- Her arms at her side against her glimmering, long black jacket and her blond hair pulled into a ponytail, Susanna Mälkki soaked in several minutes of applause after a thrilling Carnegie Hall debut. She had conducted the New York Philharmonic in a challenging program, perceived as a possible prelude to becoming the first woman music director of an orchestra that started in 1842.“Of course, it’s always an honor to be mentioned in this kind of context,” she said during an interview with The Associated Press the day before the Jan.

Tino Gagliardi has been elected president and executive director of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians in New York City.

Adele has landed 2021’s official Christmas Number 1 album with 30.

Jon Burlingame editorDaniel Pemberton’s score for Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” is unlike anything he’s written to date — a surprising choice for this think-outside-the-box composer, but one that would fit comfortably in the 1950s milieu of the film itself.“I felt it needed a kind of classic score that echoed the golden age of Hollywood,” Pemberton says from his London studio.

Jon Burlingame editorCarter Burwell has scored 19 of the movies of Joel and Ethan Coen, including such classics as “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “No Country for Old Men,” yet he’s never been nominated for a major industry award for any of that music.

Adele’s 30 scores a second week at Number 1 on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart, denying Westlife the top spot.

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Nominees for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards were announced on Tuesday and leading the large are TK, TK, and TK.

2022 GRAMMY nominations were announced on Tuesday and some of this past year's top performers and recording artists made the list. The nominations were announced during a livestream from the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, which featured Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Board of Trustees Chair Tammy Hurt, as well as some special guests.The selection process for the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards was altered back in May, following very public criticisms from The Weeknd.

In Taylor Swift’s heart is a Christmas tree farm.

Venezuela’s military academy Saturday, then woodwinds, brass and percussion gradually joined in — and thousands of musicians, mostly children and adolescents, were playing with a single goal: setting the record as the world’s largest orchestra.The musicians, all connected to the country’s network of youth orchestras, performed a roughly 10-minute Tchaikovsky piece outdoors under the watchful eyes of independent supervisors with the job of verifying that more than 8,097 instruments were playing

The holidays are never complete without a round of carol singing and much-loved Christmas hits which are bound to put a spring in your step.

NEW ORLEANS -- Irvin Mayfield, the jazz trumpet player who became a symbol of New Orleans resilience after Hurricane Katrina, was scheduled to be sentenced in federal court Wednesday for steering charity money meant for public libraries to his personal use.Mayfield and his musical and business partner, pianist Ronald Markham, each pleaded guilty in November of last year to a single charge of conspiracy to commit fraud.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. government will invest over £850 million ($1.1 billion) in cultural and heritage infrastructure in the wake of the pandemic.The investment is part of the allocation for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the three-year Spending Review that sets U.K.

Nicola Benedetti will join Andrea Bocelli as a special guest for a debut performance at the Caledonian Stadium in Inverness this summer.

Nathalie Stutzmann, the French-born contralto turned conductor, will succeed Robert Spano as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra starting with the 2022-23 season and become the second woman to lead a major American orchestra.The 56-year-old agreed to a four-year contract, the orchestra announced Wednesday, and she plans to spend 10 weeks annually in Atlanta starting in 2022-23.Marin Alsop was the first woman to head a major American orchestra as music director of the Baltimore

Angela Bassett joins Cynthia Erivo on the red carpet for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Homecoming Concert & Gala held at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday (October 9) in Los Angeles.

Shalini Dore Features News EditorAfter a year in which audiences couldn’t enjoy the Los Angeles Philharmonic in person due to the pandemic, the orchestra returned with a boisterous gala on Saturday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The evening included performances by Cynthia Erivo, pianist Seong-Jin Cho and a drumline.Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who was also named music director of the Opéra National de Paris in April, reminisced about his start 12 years ago at the helm of the L.A.

Cuba was scandalous in some circles. It was also a new musical genre, the danzón.Now some danzón scores from that time that were lost in the archives in the Cuban city of Matanzas have been rediscovered.

An 81-year-old man living with dementia and struggling with memory loss fulfilled a lifelong dream when he conducting a symphony orchestra.

dementia and their carers is to be distributed throughout Falkirk 's communities. Produced by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, ReConnect is an interactive music-making project which aims to bring people together through music to improve wellbeing and quality of life, whatever a person's age or stage.

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Orchestra will receive a $50 million grant from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, the largest gift in the history of the 103-year-old music organization.The orchestra said Thursday that $31.5 million will be dedicated to its endowment, the orchestra's financial foundation and supporting an opera and humanities festival.Severance Hall, the orchestra's home since 1931 and named after John L. Severance, will be renamed the Severance Music Center.

coronavirus pandemic as causing him to change priorities. He informed the orchestra at the end of a rehearsal Wednesday, two days before the orchestra resumes performances after an 18-month stoppage.“So much has changed because of COVID, including thoughts about my own future, my life, and my family,” he wrote in a letter to the orchestra that was made public.The 60-year-old conductor succeeded Alan Gilbert in September 2018.

Get yourself in the festive mood with Raymond Gubbay's annual season of Christmas concerts at The Bridgewater Hall.

Jon Burlingame editor“Black Panther” was an international cultural phenomenon and the Marvel movie’s Oscar-winning score, by Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson, was equally as thrilling for its unique blend of African influences, traditional orchestra and modern production techniques.On Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Sept.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is at the Venice Film Festival gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music (ANIM) are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.A few days after the Taliban occupied Kabul “they went to the school and smashed all the instruments,” says Mani who has been making a

coronavirus pandemic,” she said.Hungary has enjoyed a comparative summer reprieve from the COVID-19 pandemic after a devastating spring, when the country for a time had the world's highest number of virus deaths per capita.While confirmed cases and deaths are down, the vaccination rate also has slowed dramatically.

coronavirus pandemic,” she said.Hungary has enjoyed a comparative summer reprieve from the COVID-19 pandemic after a devastating spring, when the country for a time had the world's highest number of virus deaths per capita.While confirmed cases and deaths are down, the vaccination rate also has slowed dramatically.