In resisting the present tendency among conductors to leave a post at the first attractive opportunity, Simon Denis Rattle (born 1955) transformed England's City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from ...
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Berlin (dpa) - A May Day concert in Berlin conducted by Sir Simon
Rattle marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of one of the
world's top orchestras, the Berlin Philhar...
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London (dpa) - Liverpool, the British port city of Beatles' fame,
was Friday preparing for the party of a lifetime to celebrate its
12-month reign as this year's European Ca...
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Berlin (dpa) - The position is not yet vacant, but the Wagner
family has stepped up its manoeuvring over who is to take over as
Bayreuth Festival founded by Richard Wagner i...
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Hamburg, Germany (dpa) - To some he was a tyrant, to others a
genius, and to his wife he was "the sweetest, gentlest man alive" -
and now the centenary of Herbert von Karaja...
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"Die Walkuere" holds the raw material of Wagner caricature: horned helmets, spears, endless scenes and "Ride of the Valkyries." But Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic swept past all that ...
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London (dpa) - What would a British summer be without its music
festivals, its picnics on the lawn, strawberries and cream, Wimbledon
and cricket?
This year i...
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Berlin (dpa) - After five years as chief conductor of the Berlin
Philharmonic the honeymoon might be over, says Simon Rattle. But the
thrill of conducting what is often judg...
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It was hardly Carnegie Hall.The Berlin Philharmonic flew into town, and one of the first stops by some of its musicians was the gritty streets of the Bowery rather than upscale 57th Street.A five-m...
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Simon Rattle stood in front of the Berlin Philharmonic, stretched across in front of the United Palace Theater's stage, and he towered above as if he were a mop-topped giraffe.Instead of playing at...
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Has classical music become hip? From the looks of this fall, some of the city’s most traditional venues will be competing with clubs for the downtown crow. Check out The Berlin in ...
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Simon Denis Rattle
PREVIEW: Concert marks 125 years of Berlin Philharmonic
