Music News 2023

I've read where Charles III has commissioned 12 new pieces for his coronation. The coronation anthem will be by Andrew Lloyd Weber.

I just discovered the Violin Channel--how great!
https://theviolinchannel.com/classical-music-news/

I would point out that Handel's setting for Zadok the Priest has been sung at every British coronation since that of George II in 1727. I cannot believe that King Charles will vary from this tradition.

>3 Blythewood:

I just googled quickly and it seems that although there will be a lot of new music, Zadok the Priest will still be included.

Andrea Boccelli--I know he's not technically classic, but I love him! He has a movie "Andrea Bocelli's Journey" out on April 2,3,4,6.

>2 Tess_W: I just discovered the Violin Channel--how great!
https://theviolinchannel.com/classical-music-news/

Thanks for the tip! Some channels I like are

All of Bach
https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach

Classic Arts Showcase
https://www.classicartsshowcase.org

Concertgoer Allegedly Orgasms While Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Tchaikovsky (Exclaim!)

Romance isn't dead! During a performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday (April 28), an unidentified audience member reportedly let out a "loud full-body orgasm," The Los Angeles Times reports. For maybe the first time ever outside the small circles of musicologists and Russian Romanticists, Twitter was abuzz this weekend with the story of this very public climax at the symphony... "It was quite beautiful"... Classical music is actually dangerously horny...

>7 John5918: If you read the report in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-04-30/la-phil-concert-orgasm-twitter-tchaikovsky), it appears that the conductor was one Elim Chan, about whom I know nothing. I wondered briefly if, supposing Gustavo Dudamel had been conducting, his aura of physicality might have been the cause.

Seriously, I've only seen Dudamel in action once, and that was in Vienna with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra doing the Beethoven 9th. Wonderful.