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Operatic contralto
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Charlotte von Sainton-Dolby)
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- opera singer, composer, music teacher
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2023-10-27 18:31:56
Callas – Paris, 1958: celebrating Maria Callas’ centenary In her centenary year Volf Productions and Composite Films have revealed that one of Maria Callas’ greatest filmed performances of all time has now been meticulously restored from the original reels in colour, 4K resolution and Dolby Atmos surround sound for the big screen. Fresh from being selected in the History of Cinema category to be shown as a Special Screening at this year’s Rome Film Festival. CALLAS – PARIS, 1958 is directed […]
2023-05-05 07:53:00
Classical critics need to talk sound sense
Many more people listen to classical music on streaming services than attend live concerts. Streaming is forcing important changes on recorded classical music, and these changes are little understood, or, in some notable cases, not understood at all. As an example, on the music industry-endorsed Slipped Disc classical influencer Norman Lebrecht gives an enthusiastic welcome to Apple Classical, saying: 'In a Shostakovich tenth symphony from Berlin, the internal definition seemed to me clearer than the orchestra’s own-label recording and, weirdly, than my aural memory of hearing it in the hall. If this is to be the future quality of sound, bring it on'. In his linked article for The Critic headlined Apple of My Ear Lebrecht explains that he auditioned Apple Classical using the Dolby Atmos/Apple Spatial Audio format. So we need to dig down into the use of PR-speak such as "the sound on Apple is as good as it gets, actually better" by […]
2022-09-22 19:02:00
SFS Appoints Matthew Spivey as CEO
Davies Symphony HallPhoto by Lisa HirschThis news broke yesterday, but it was a busy day for me and the announcement came right after the SFO cast change announcement.Matthew Spivey is the new CEO of the San Francisco Symphony. He succeeds Mark Hanson, who left, 13 months ago, with little explanation. Spivey has been with SFS since 2015 and served as Chief Programming Officer, which is very much what it sounds like: he had a lot of responsibility for what you heard and for artistic planning from 2015 until now. He worked with both MTT and Esa-Pekka Salonen in that capacity. Spivey has been interim CEO since Hanson's departure. His promotion is similar to that of Chad Smith at the LA Phil: Smith was the extremely effective artistic administrator (the title might be different...) and after the orchestra's misadventure with Simon Woods, the Board wisely gave the CEO job to Smith. Previously, […]
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