Category: music

Three Tenors to perform for the first time in same evening at the Metropolitan Opera. – Times of India (AP)

– opens music school in Tokyo. – CBC

– to ship 2000 musical instruments to Cuba. – CBC

– to go ahead with planned concerts in Austria. – CBC

• PLAYING IN AUSTRIA: Musicians of the Toronto Symphony will decide Wednesday whether they will play  scheduled concerts in Austria next month. – CBC 02/15/00

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra will appoint Mark Ermler, conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, as its chief conductor for the 2000-2001 season. – Korea Times

Szell, Ormandy, Sills, to be inducted. – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Contrary to popular legend, Mozart was not the victim of foul play, says a professor of medicine. It was a case of severe rheumatic fever. – Singapore Straits Times

Dallas Symphony hits the internet with its first online concert broadcast. The potential audience was enormous – was anyone listening? – Dallas Morning News

PBS’s “Aida’s Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera” attempts to tell the complex history of black Americans and their struggles to enter the musical mainstream of opera. “Unfolding without benefit of narration, the documentary allows those who helped break the color barrier, and those who followed in their wake, to relate the story in their own fashion.” – New York Times

– receives France’s highest civilian honor. – BBC