“The £1.2m Stradivarius and two bows were stolen from classical musician Min-Jin Kym while she was in a cafe at Euston station in November 2010. John Maughan, 30, admitted theft in 2011 but the violin was never found.”
Category: music
Margaret Bonds At 100 – Still That Rarity, A Black Female Classical Composer
“Margaret Bonds, who died in 1972, is perhaps near the top of the very short list of African-American female composers. Thanks to her partnerships with Langston Hughes and soprano Leontyne Price and others, she’s remembered in some circles as an important figure in American composition. But, mostly, she’s been forgotten.”
Cincinnati Piano Competition Wants To Be No. 1
“A new partnership aims to restore glory to the half-century-old World Piano Competition, and make Cincinnati a destination for the world’s top piano competitors.”
Seriously: There’s No Mozart Effect
“The apparent benefits from music lessons have more to do with which kids take music lessons than they do with the lessons themselves. In addition, studies of adult professional musicians show no cognitive benefits over comparable professional non-musicians.”
Why Is VH1 Paying For Instruments For Students?
“Schools have told us that the initial capital outlay for items like musical instruments is a big challenge. We offer packages so that schools can select whether they want band instruments or string instruments, or a keyboard or guitar laboratory.”
How To Sign ‘Long Drum Solo’? (Use Your Whole Body)
“A good interpreter is adept at signing, but Ms. Parker also wants her team to impart the emotions and feelings music conveys.”
Vienna Philharmonic To Answer Nazi Charges
“The complete reports of the historians are to be posted on the orchestra’s Web site on March 12, the 75th anniversary of the Austrian Anschluss.”
Kronos Quartet Takes On New Cellist
“A new cellist, USC graduate Sunny Jungin Yang will replace Jeffrey Zeigler, who is leaving Kronos to pursue solo projects and will join the faculty of Mannes College the New School for Music in New York.”
SF Oboist Dead Following Mid-Concerto Stroke
“William Bennett, the longtime San Francisco Symphony oboist who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on Saturday night while performing Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto with the orchestra in Davies Symphony Hall, died Thursday morning in a San Francisco hospital. He was 56.”
Top Baroque Oboist Washington McClain Dies Suddenly
After spending the 1990s in Toronto’s Tafelmusik, McClain became a professor at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, principal oboe for period ensembles in Montreal (Ensemble Arion) and Cleveland (Apollo’s Fire), and one of the most personally beloved individuals in North America’s Baroque music community.