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- The Amadeus Choral from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean will celebrate its 75th anniversary on February 12 with a special mass. [Plus d’infos]
- Classical’s nomination for the JUNO Awards. A special article of The Scena Musica on it ! [JUNO Awards – And the 46th JUNO Award Nominees are…]
- Program announced for the 21C Music Festival in May 24-28 2017. [Newswire in My Scena]
INTERNATIONAL
- The famous violinist Svend Asmussen died yesterday, a few days before his 101th birthday. He was well-know for his performances with many stars of jazz like with Stéphane Grappelli, Josephine Baker and Duke Ellington.
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- « Composer wins competition, gets billed for $19,000 [for his recording]. [Plus d’Infos]
- José Luis Pérez de Arteagam, Spanish biographer of Mahler, died yesterday. [Plus d’Infos]
- « The London Symphony Orchestra has announced that James Hoyle, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Sophya Polevaya, Emma Wilde, Alexander Woolf and Han Xu have been selected for its 2017 Panufnik Composers Scheme. », a program to give the possibility of composers to improve their writing skills. [Plus d’Infos]
- Another musician refused from an airline to bring his cello on board a flight. [Plus d’Infos]
- The decrease of Classical CD sale continues. [Plus d’Infos]
- « Orchestras perform more but earn less, report finds ». More people go to the concert, but the income decrease . [Plus d’Infos]
- Arm-Wrestling between Seattle’s Symphonic Orchestra and Donald Trump about the Immigration’s decree. [Plus d’Infos]
- Wayne Shorter wins the prestigious Polar Music Prize (which comes with 113,000$) [Plus d’Infos]
- «Philip Gossett – general editor of the complete Giuseppe Verdi for the University of Chicago Press and Ricordi, and of works of Gioachino Rossini for Bärenreiter – has donated his personal library to Juilliard. » [Plus d’infos]
- The Warner Music Group now makes 3,4 million $ by day with Spotify and Itunes. [Plus d’infos]
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