The German film composer Hans Zimmer is in discussion with officials in Riyadh on a number of projects, including a reinstrumentation lof their national anthem.
They must have really loved Dune.
More here.
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This post forms the middle bit of a Porpora sandwich. Back in September (which feels ages ago now!) I covered Ncolai Porpora’s Iphigenie in Aulide at Bayreuth Baroque with Christophe Rousset conducting Les Talens Lyriques […]
Vienna-based Yuki Hirano from Sapporo has been pronounced winner of the seventh Jascha Heifetz Competition, which took place in Vilnius, Lithiania. Gidon Kremer chaired the jury. The post Japanese wins Heifetz Competition appeared first on […]
Cellist Josep Castanyer Alonso of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has issued a video of himself playing the Maria Carey hit in the style of six composers. Josep samples Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and […]
