This week, we start out with a rousing round of Name That Tune AKA Stump the Hosts and then we move on to our three topics:
NEWS! Headlines
Steinway IPOs (Fast Company)
Missing 100k Violin Found by a Parisian Trash Can (The Strad)
Rice Opens New Opera House (FDA Online)
St. Paul’s adds girls to chorister program (St. Paul’s)
YoYo Ma wins $1m Birgit Nilsson prize (The Strad)
Congrats to Tiffany on her appointment as director of orchestras at U-FL! Go Gators!
BERNSTEIN BIOPIC PICS DROP
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein: First Look (Deadline)
ALBUM REVIEW: STILL, ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Listen on Spotify
Album info on Naxos
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
The full playlist
Kensho
Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F Major
Tiffany
William Grant Still, Kaintuck’
Will
Telemann, Ouverture “Les Nations”: 5. Les Moscovites
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