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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Aug 28

This discussion is happening now. All welcome:
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/08/disc...

#MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #discussion #Zoom #education

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Aug 28

John Dante Prevedini will be leading an online discussion at Classical Music Daily later today, Thursday 28 August 2025, on the subject 'The effect of higher education on classical music and musicians'. All welcome!
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/08/disc...
#MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #discussion

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 18

Guy Johnston, Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra play the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto on Onyx Classics - digital album out 25 July. Geoff Pearce's review is here:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/blis...

#ClassicalMusic #UK #RPLO #Liverpool #MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 15

Monumental and Breathtaking Proportions: Adam J Sacks visits the Estonian Song and Dance Festival in Tallinn:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/esto...

#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #Estonia #Tallinn #ClassicalMusic #song #dance #ChoralMusic #Laulupidu #Baltics

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kourosh @kouroshrazavi.bsky.social · Jul 6

Estonian Song and Dance Festival March towards festival grounds 🇪🇪

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 11

Wales' Presteigne Festival starts in under 6 weeks. Eleanor Alberga is composer-in-residence & the festival marks 50 years since Shostakovich's death:
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/pres...
‪#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #Wales #Powys #Herefordshire #UK @georgevass.bsky.social
Pic: Ben Ealovega

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 9

Today: A Critical Examination - Sandrine Erdely-Sayo writes about the misuse of the terms 'intellectual' and 'artist':

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/inte...

#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #art #artsky #ClassicalMusic #intellectualism #essay #creativity #authenticity

Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer,
astrologer, geographer and music theorist
Claudius Ptolemy. 1476 portrait by
Justus van Gent and Pedro Berruguete

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 6

Chicken Feed? Ron Bierman listens to Mozart and Beethoven in San Diego's Epstein Family Amphitheater. Just published at Classical Music Daily:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/main...

@619sdld.bsky.social‬ #ClassicalMusicSky #MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #SanDiego #California #USA

Pic: Ken Jacques

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 5

The Girl with the Squeezebox :
Peter King on the career of Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova:
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/ksen...

#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #ClassicalMusic #accordion #Latvia #Argentina #France #Italy #Lithuania #Montenegro #Peru #Russia #UK

Photo © Janis Spigovskis

Ksenija Sidorova playing the accordion. Photo © Janis Spigovskis

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 4

Robert McCarney's Resounding Echoes series is back with two new episodes about lesser-known 20th century music:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/the-...

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/reso...

#ResoundingEchoes #ClassicalMusicSky #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #Austria #Germany #Norway #Russia

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 4

Classical Music Daily welcomed 4 new writers during June 2025. First articles here:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/wagn...

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/marg...

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/exce...

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/an-e...

#ClassicalMusicSky #MusicSky

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 4

Today at Classical Music Daily, Mike Wheeler listens to choral music by Mozart, Orlando Gibbons, David Bednall and Cecilia McDowall:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/sitw...

Sitwell Singers #MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #ChoralMusic #Derby #UK ‪#Mozart #Austria @orlandogibbons.bsky.social

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 4

All good wishes to our friends in the USA on American Independence Day. Here are our latest articles about classical music in the USA:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/articles/a/u...

#July4 #MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #USA

United States of America - Classical Music Daily

www.classicalmusicdaily.com

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Jul 4

Nikolas Mavreas' review of Michael Downes' book 'Wagner and the Creation of the Ring' has been quoted on the publisher's website & Amazon :

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/06/wagn...

This is Nikolas' first review for Classical Music Daily. He's one of 4 new writers who appeared during June 2025.

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 26

Gerald Fenech strongly recommends organ and choral music by English composer Herbert Howells on the Regent Records label. '... as virtuosic as one could wish for.' :

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/howe...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #HerbertHowells #Durham #UK #RegentRecords #choir #OrganMusic

Herbert Howells: Psalms and Psalm Preludes. David Hill, organ; The Choir of Durham Cathedral / Daniel Cook. Copyright 2025 Regent Records

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 26

Review of Saturday's Elgar Festival choral concert given by the Proteus Ensemble conducted by Stephen Shellard in Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire, UK:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/elga...

#MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #Elgar #Worcestershire #UK #choir

Photo: Michael Whitefoot

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 22

Birmingham Bach Choir and Paul Spicer return to Great Malvern Priory in Worcestershire, UK on Saturday 5 July 2025 for music by Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy and Russell Hepplewhite.

classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/la-b...

#Malvern #Worcestershire #Birmingham #UK #France #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 6

Dated Classical Stoicism?

Paul Bodine reports on a @sdbalboa.bsky.social concert, featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman & Pablo Ferrandez :
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/mutt...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #violin #cello #piano #SanDiego #USA #Germany #Austria #Russia

Pic: Madi Nguyen

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman and Pablo Ferrandez in San Diego on 3 May 2025. Photo © 2025 Madi Nguyen

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 3

The 'Alice in Wonderland' Phenomenon - Frances Forbes-Carbines listens to Andrea Bocelli presented using innovative sound technology to an audience of twenty thousand:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/andr...

#Italy #Czechia #Moldova #ClassicalMusic #O2Arena #London #UK

Pic © 2025 Luca Rosetti

Andrea Bocelli at the O2 Arena in London.
Photo © 2025 Luca Rosetti

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 2

The Performing Artist as Co-creator - watch and listen to our illustrated online discussion, chaired by John Dante Prevedini:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/perf...
(runs for nearly 69 mins)

#ClassicalMusic #Jazz #MusicSky #discussion #composers #performers #Czechia #Japan #Russia #UK #USA

The Performing Artist as Co-Creator. John Dante Prevedini (host), Béla Hartmann, Keith Bramich, Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Stephen Francis Vasta, David Arditti. www.classicalmusicdaily.com - discussion recorded on 23 April 2025

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · May 2

Serenade to Shakespeare: Mike Wheeler has no complaints about the choral contribution to this inspired idea:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/sitw...

#Shakespeare #SitwellSingers #AlexWyatt #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #StJohnTheEvangelistDerby #Derby #UK #Australia #Germany #ChoralMusic #piano

Sitwell Singers: Serenade to Shakespeare. Saturday 26th April 2025, 7.30pm. St John the Evangelist Church, Mill Street, Derby DE1 3HZ

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Apr 23

This is happening now.

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Apr 23

We're inviting everyone to a 1 hour discussion on Zoom about 'The Performing Artist as Co-creator' - all welcome. Starts in less than 90 minutes from now. Details (including start time in your region) here:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/04/disc...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #discussion #Zoom

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Apr 23

The Last Days of Immanuel Kant - Donald Nally's professional chamber choir The Crossing gives the first performance of a new work by British composer Gavin Bryars:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/04/the-...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #GavinBryars #TheCrossing #DonaldNally #Germany #USA #UK

The Crossing choir with conductor Donald Nally (bottom right)

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Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com · Apr 22

Come and talk to us about this tomorrow!