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2018-11-23 16:27:08
The Gewandhaus Quartet has today announced the appointment of 35-year-old South Korean-born violinist Yun-Jin Cho as the ensemble’s new second violinist. A graduate of the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin, where she studied with Ulf Wallin, Yun-Jin currently serves as Deputy 1st Concertmaster of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Made up of principal player of the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-03-01 18:07:14
A noted Leipziger of yore. The announcement in September 2015 that Andris Nelsons would become the 21st Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra beginning in its 2017-’18 season gave us all a bit of a shock, inasmuch as the maestro had only just assumed his full responsibilities as Boston Symphony Orchestra artistic director, the year before. The BSO was quick to paint the positive implications of a “…strategic alliance [that] will allow Andris to consolidate the core of his European work in a place that shares a musical heritage with the BSO.” Today we are getting more details of that cross-fertilization initiative which, beginning a year from now, will encourage: co-commissioning; sharing the spotlight on each orchestra’s culture and history; and musician exchanges between the two orchestras and their respective acclaimed academies for advanced music studies. The BSO tells us that a “Leipzig Week in Boston” (February 2018 and […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2014-09-02 13:27:54
Mendelssohn Prize goes to … German Foreign Minister. Er, why?
Sometimes being German is all it takes. The award of the International Mendelssohn Prize in Leipzig to Hans-Dietrich Gesncher, long-serving foreign minister and middle-road politician, is one of those sometimes. What has Genscher done to exemplify the values and creative exhilaration of Felix Mendelssohn? Here’s the citation (auf Deutsch): „Seinem Motto: ‘… verantwortliche Politik muss der Freiheit und der Würde jedes einzelnen Menschen dienen’, ist Hans-Dietrich Genscher immer treu geblieben. Stets hat er sich für eine intensive Zusammenarbeit in Europa, für ein ganzheitliches, global verantwortungsvolles Denken eingesetzt und stets hat er diese Haltung selbst aktiv vertreten. Ein solches Denken und Handeln entspricht ganz dem aufklärerischen Geiste Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys, des großen Europäers und Mittlers zwischen den Religionen, der sich immer auch in besonderer Weise den Menschen zugewandt hat, nicht nur mit seiner Musik, sondern auch im gesellschaftlichen Leben. Mit dem Politiker und Humanisten Hans-Dietrich Genscher wird […]
Brian Dickie, Life as General Director of Chicago
2013-10-24 00:42:36
The beautiful sound of the Gewandhaus string principals was remarkable in the Brahms first string quartet in the lovely new Milton Court concert hall in the Guildhall School of Music, part of the Barbican complex. As the Juilliard School is to Lincoln Center.......so this was an excellent way to spend 40 minutes this evening, all for just 3 pounds. And Milton Court (rightt) is a fabulous new asset. I expect to be there often - it will be the London home of the Academy of Ancient Music and the Britten Sinfonia. And has happens increasingly in my new life in London, I encountered an old friend and colleague at this event, John Tooley. It was such a pleasure to see him again after so long. We worked closely together at the Theatrical Management Association in the 1970s when he was General Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. […]