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Instrument-maker code: A curator from CNRS and the Museum of Music has found a way to decrypt the records taken by Maison Gand & Bernardel. Information was noted in the records with a special code to facilitate business transactions by discreetly identifying the maker and the value of each violin. The discovery will allow us to understand the value market of the violins. [Le Monde] [Le Figaro] [La croix] [Science et avenir]
MONTRÉAL
- The Violons du Roy’s 2017–18 musical season unveiled. [Scena Musicale]
- L’OCCQ (which reports to the Institut de la Statistique du Québec), claims the lack of data about listening habits is due to companies withholding streaming information.[Le Devoir]
- The INRS has denounced the system of financing cultural institutions that do not take account of digital and artistic realities. [Le Devoir]
- The McGill Opera Festival
- Opera McGill’s 24-hour festival featuring 7 operas ! [La Scena]
INTERNATIONNAL
- The final of the 2017 Edition Cliburn Competition will be presented live accross the USA on June 10th. [La Scena]
- Jonas Kaufman is back on stage. Yesterday, he sang in the general rehearsal of the Vienna Opera. [Slippedisc]
- Read a review of the book The Political Orchestra:The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics During the Third Reich by Fritz Trümpi. [Classic Voice America]
- In Brunswick, Germany, the Herzog Anton Ulrich museum claims to have found a Rembrandt sketch. [Le Figaro]
- Violinist Joshua Bell with Sony Interactive Entertainment produced a 360-degree virtual reality classical music concert experience using the PlayStation VR headset. [The Violin Channel]
- Death of the artistic director Huang Feili at 99, in Hong Kong. [Slippedisc]
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