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La Scena Online is the digital magazine of La Scene Musicale.Contents: News, Concert reviews, CD reviews, Interviews, Obituaries, etc; Editor: Wah Keung Chan; Assistant Editor: Andreanne Venne
ISSN: 1206-9973

Why artists have a duty not to ostracise Austria

By Norman Lebrecht on 10 February 2000 Lebrecht Weekly, Opera, Orchestral

Why artists have a duty not to ostracise Austria by Norman Lebrecht / February 10, 2000 TO boycott or not to boycott? That is the burning question. Whether to ostracise Jörg Haider’s Austria until it returns a government we can approve of is one of those conflicts of conscience and self-interest that bring out the best and worst in cultural leadership. Gérard Mortier has led the exodus, resigning this week a year early as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival and precipitating instant withdrawals from a leading sponsor and conductor. More painful is the loss of Betty Freeman, who helped…

Going…going…gone? UK Public Libraries

By Norman Lebrecht on 9 February 2000 Lebrecht Weekly

ISSUE 1720 Wednesday 9 February 2000 Going…going…gone? UK Public Libraries Let’s act now before libraries stamp out the last of our books, says Norman Lebrecht THERE have been two periods in my life when I had intensive recourse to public libraries. In my early teens, there was no better place to meet a girl than behind the medical stacks of a high-street library. In my early twenties, there was no better place to acquire learning than in one of those grand Victorian mausolea that dignify the London Borough of Westminster. Bypassing the common loan stock, I would make for…

Domingo goes solo

By Norman Lebrecht on 2 February 2000 Art Song, Lebrecht Weekly, Opera

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Domingo goes solo There could be a new lease of life for the aging tenor, says Norman Lebrecht ON Sunday afternoon, Placido Domingo did something different. In front of a packed Carnegie Hall, with Daniel Barenboim at the piano, Domingo sang a solo recital for only the third time in his life. The first was last spring in Berlin, the second last week in Chicago. Is this a trend, or just making amends? When Domingo started singing 40 years ago in Mexico City there were two-and-a-half career options for a good-looking tenor. He could sing opera; he could do recital…

La Scena Musicale Online Selected 3rd Best Music Web site

By La Scena Musicale Team on 28 January 2000 La Scena Online

La Scena Musicale Online Selected 3rd Best Music Web site La Scena Musicale Online (http://www.scena.org) Selected 3rd Best Music Web site (Montreal – January 27, 2000) In its February 2000 issue, Chamber Music Magazine selected La Scena Musicale Online as the no. 3 music web site in the world. The article “50 Best Websites” called La Scena Musicale “a real discovery from Montreal … [that] is helping the Internet compensate for the dreadful decline and fall of music magazines.” LSM Online contains: • The electronic version of the printed magazine, La Scena Musicale, Canada’s Free Bilingual Classical Music Magazine, in…

Can he see off the gremlins?

By Norman Lebrecht on 26 January 2000 Lebrecht Weekly, Opera

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Can he see off the gremlins? Disaster has dogged the new Royal Opera House. But closure is not an option, says boss Michael Kaiser. Norman Lebrecht reports LET’S face it: nothing works. The London Eye is glazed over, the Jubilee Line to the Dome keeps stalling and the Royal Opera House can hardly raise a curtain without having to make an apology. So far, the great British public have displayed high forbearance and the spirit of the Blitz. Many are aware that any new theatre crawls with ghosts and gremlins. It took a dozen years to get all systems working…

Dissident notes

By Norman Lebrecht on 19 January 2000 Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly

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Dissident notes What Shostakovich is really all about, by Norman Lebrecht THERE is a striking symmetry between the Holocaust “denial” issues that are being heard in the High Court and the publication of a purportedly authoritative biography of Dmitri Shostakovich which argues that he was essentially an obedient Soviet citizen. The historian David Irving, who has acknowledged that millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis, maintains that this cannot properly be attributed to Adolf Hitler’s instigation since no one has ever seen a signed Führer order for the prosecution of genocide. The American musicologist Laurel Fay follows similar thinking…

A great time to give

By Norman Lebrecht on 12 January 2000 Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

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A great time to give Norman Lebrecht on how the Gordon Brown is about to create a Third Way of paying for the arts THIS may not be the first place you would come looking for tax advice, but a couple of tips that have come my way could be worth a fortune to the performing arts, if they play their cards right. In last November’s pre-Budget report, the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced a number of measures, to take effect this spring, that will help national charities stricken with Lottery blight. Among them were two concessions for givers, great and…

How will this century sound?

By Norman Lebrecht on 5 January 2000 Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly

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How will this century sound? Classical music faces a new age in unexpectedly buoyant form. It is livelier and more surprising than at any time since Rachmaninov, says Norman Lebrecht THE final decade of the 20th century brought a measure of relief to the agonised search for a musical identity. Warily, the art looked into a mirror and accepted what it saw, an image fractured and more complex than any in its history. Unlike former centuries which wore a uniform musical face – the 19th century being broadly Romantic, the 18th Classical, the 17th Baroque – the 20th century had…

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