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The Parkhouse Award has been withheld for the first time in its 15year history. The Finals Concert was held at Wigmore Hall on 24 March. The four finalist ensembles were the Morgenstern Trio, Leibniz Trio, Rautio Piano Trio and the cello/piano duo Giovanni Gnocchi and Mariangela Vacatello. Chairman of the jury, Chris de Souza writes:
"The Parkhouse Award for chamber music with piano and strings has earned a reputation, since its foundation, as a competition of the h...
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The Washington Post
; Andre' Previn is the ultimate professional. And when he became music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2 1/2 years ago, what he found was that a musician's lot is not always a happy one. "It's a terrible life and it's unlike anywhere else in the civilized world," says Previn. "It's been
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EILEEN CROXFORD
Musical Opinion
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Correction: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Independent - London
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Correction: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; IN YESTERDAY'S Independent, the headline above a report on page 8 about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's new home mistakenly referred to the London Philharmonic Orchestra. We apologise for the confusion.
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The Washington Post
; ... and they've found nothing wrong with our acoustics." Peg Goldberg Longstreth, in her review of the concert for the Naples Daily News, called Gatti an "incredibly rude, ill-mannered, churlish, boorish young conductor" who "tripped over his enormous ego and, in ...
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The Washington Post
; Anybody who follows music is well aware that Vladimir Ashkenazy is a major pianist-in fact, a great one by most measures. But at the Royal Philharmonic's concert last night at the Kennedy Center, the packed house heard Ashkenazy the conductor. He is the orchestra's new music director, starting this
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Cat among the pigeons
The Independent - London
; So London has too many symphony orchestras, does it? Try telling that to the Royal Philharmonic. Ever since the death in 1961 of its founder, Sir Thomas Beecham, the RPO has mastered the art of survival as a peripatetic swashbuckling band that has apparently lost its empire without yet
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