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Introducing VAN #399 💋 The Köln Concert, at 50 💋 Chaya Czernowin's untouchable music 💋 Listening for the body of Julius Eastman 💋 Conductor Aurel Dawidiuk on music, growing up and loss van-magazine.com

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As we approach 400th edition of VAN EN, join the club ♣️ van-magazine.com/subscribe/

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"October 7, 2024 marked Clark’s 55th year ringing at the cathedral, but she’s not done yet. Having rung 95 peals in the span of her career, she has her eye set on reaching 100. She jokes that she wants to die with a bell rope in her hand." van-magazine.com/mag/bell-rin...

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"Each of the first four notes—bah bah bah BUM—gets precisely matched with a syllable of text—'Bee-tho-ven’s WIG.' Next: 'is ve-ry BIG.'" A salute to silliness, by Thulasi Seshan van-magazine.com/mag/beethove...

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From Thursday's edition, Notes from All Over, your weekly dose of news from the classical music community. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for all our latest articles, every Thursday afternoon 💌 van-magazine.com/subscribe/

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These are the top Republican donors also donating to American orchestras and opera companies van-magazine.com/mag/republic...

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American history, seen from high in a D.C. bellcroft van-magazine.com/mag/bell-rin...

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Thulasi Seshan on "Beethoven's Wig," the beloved American sing-along classical series van-magazine.com/mag/beethove...

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Which MAGA donors are also involved in funding classical music in America? van-magazine.com/mag/republic...

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In VAN this week 👇 🐘 Which MAGA donors are also donating to American orchestras? 👨‍🦳 Why "Beethoven's Wig" was ahead of its time 🔔 American politics, as seen from D.C.'s cathedral bellcroft 🐑 Bach's "Sheep May Softly Graze" in Trump's America van-magazine.com/mag/republic...

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Who is Haus of Shmizzay? van-magazine.com/mag/haus-of-...

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"I worked a lot with John Cage—he loved to be surprised." An interview with Joan La Barbara van-magazine.com/mag/joan-la-...

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Classical music fiction author Brendan Slocumb on strategies for writing about music, the intersections between music and politics, and what needs to change in the classical music industry. van-magazine.com/mag/brendan-...

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Who’s behind the voice-teacher-cum-shock-jock Haus of Shmizzay, the Instagram opera provocateur shaking things up online? Perri DiChristina went to the Met to find out van-magazine.com/mag/haus-of-...

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Today at 9pm on Radio 3, a major new series begins: 20th Century Radicals, a history of a century told through 40 composers. Hugh Morris spoke to one of its presenters, Kate Molleson, about wrangling with history van-magazine.com/mag/twentiet...

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New VAN! ♾️ Perri di Christina profiles James Smidt (aka @hausofshmizzay), the Instagram opera provocateur backing bel canto ♾️ Joan La Barbara in conversation ♾️ A new Radio 3 series wrangles with last century's radicals ♾️ Brendam Slocumb's classical mystery fiction van-magazine.com/mag/haus-of-...

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From VAN 397, it's the Classical Music News! Notes from All Over, from London, San Francisco, Washington and… Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Sign up to VAN for the newest new news every Thursday 🗞️ van-magazine.com/subscribe/

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The best forgeries in music history: Frederick Reese speaks to Phil Hebblethwaite about his new book van-magazine.com/mag/music-fo...

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BárTalk, where our critics head to the bar following a performance of “Das grosse Feuer” by Beat Furrer van-magazine.com/mag/das-gros...

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A big morning for season announcements: at Covent Garden, a new production of Tosca (starring Anna Netrebko), a first performance there of The Makropulos Case, new productions of I Puritani, and Ariodante, plus revivals of Deborah Warner's Grimes and Oliver Leith's Last Days.

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BárTalk, where our critics head to the bar following a performance of “Das grosse Feuer” by Beat Furrer van-magazine.com/mag/das-gros...

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The letters of Pau Casals: the formation of the Associació Obrera de Concerts, the story of his exile, his powerful indictment of Franco, and insight into “El Pessebre," one of his most personal compositions. van-magazine.com/mag/an-encou...

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Elaine Mitchener on her first encounter with Julius Eastman’s music, his unwavering commitment to art activism, that salty incident with John Cage, and the first steps in decolonizing contemporary and classical music canons. van-magazine.com/mag/julius-e...

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Two music critics walk into a bar. The result? BarTálk, VAN's new review segment. The first edition, by Jeffrey Arlo Brown and Ty Bouque, involves Beat Furrer's new opera “Das grosse Feuer” van-magazine.com/mag/das-gros...

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"Pau Casals wrote letters as he played the cello: with conviction and exacting care." Discover Casals' extraordinary collection of letters through this essay by Kyle Rosen van-magazine.com/mag/an-encou...

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"It asks: How was the canon formed and when did we begin to care about authenticity in art? Can lies be beautiful? What is art and who has the authority to determine its value?" Phil Hebblethwaite on Frederick Reese's new book, "Forgery in Musical Composition" van-magazine.com/mag/music-fo...

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it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the octave, the major ninth, the compound major thir—

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It was a pleasure to chat with Elaine Mitchener about Julius Eastman, art activism, that salty Cage incident, and decolonising music canons ahead of "Moving Eastman" at the Barbican. Read our conversation in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/julius-e...

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There's a brilliant book on forgeries in classical music being published in June. I interviewed its author, Frederick Reece, for my fave mag, @vanmusicmag.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/music-fo...

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It's a new VAN day 💌 🌀 Phil Hebblethwaite on musical forgeries 🌀 The extraordinary letters of Pau Casals 🌀 BarTálk, VAN's new review segment 🌀 Elaine Mitchener on Julius Eastman All this, plus Notes from All Over in our newsletter — come join us ❣️ van-magazine.com/mag/music-fo...

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Happy birthday PB!… van-magazine.com/mag/why-boul...

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From VAN 395, Notes from All Over 🗞️ van-magazine.com

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"We are always necessarily losing our greatest composers, because that loss paradoxically affirms the work as continually possible, as continually necessary. We mourn out of need. It is what allows us to say we." Ty Bouque on Sofia Gubaidulina van-magazine.com/mag/the-sacr...

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Hugh Morris sits down with Naomi Pohl, general secretary of the Musicians' Union, to speak about a bruising period for the UK orchestral sector van-magazine.com/mag/musician...

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Are you Boulez 👼 or Boulez 😈? Either way, we've got you covered van-magazine.com/mag/why-boul...

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VAN #395 @carolinefrmus.bsky.social & @gtra1n.bsky.social on Boulez pro/contra • Ty Bouque on Sofia Gubaidulina • @hwfmorris.bsky.social interviews Musicians' Union general secretary Naomi Pohl • James C. Taylor reviews Katharina Wagner's new "Lohengrin" van-magazine.com

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For Boulez's centennial, in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social I wrote something that would likely have made him furious: how ambivalence was the main thing in his music, and compare him with his loathed Shostakovich. Enjoy! van-magazine.com/mag/why-boul...

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On Boulez's centenary in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social today: van-magazine.com/mag/why-boul...

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»Wenn Donald Trump wiedergewählt wird, komme ich nicht mehr in die USA. Ich kann solche Dinge nicht akzeptieren, einen Donald Trump, das geht zu weit«, sagte Pianist András Schiff 2023 in VAN: van-magazin.de/mag/andras-s... Für die Saison 2025-2026 hat er jetzt alle Auftritte in den USA abgesagt.

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"[In 2020], I told my American agent, 'If Donald Trump gets re-elected, I’m not going to the U.S. anymore.' That didn’t happen, thank God, but it might now. I can’t accept such things: Donald Trump is a step too far." —András Schiff to VAN in September 2023 van-magazine.com/mag/andras-s...

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Notes from All Over from Thursday’s edition, from Canada, America, San Francisco and Liverpool 🗞️ Get all this in your inboxes every week —> van-magazine.com/subscribe/

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