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Musical America Announces 2011 Awards for Anne-Sophie Mutter, Thomas Adès, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Simon Keenlyside, and Perlis

The publication Musical America, now in its third century as an indispensable resource for the international performing arts, today announced the winners of its annual Musical America Awards, recognizing artistic excellence and achievement in the arts.

The announcement precedes the December publication of the 2011 Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts, which, in addition to its comprehensive industry listings, pays homage to each of these artists in its editorial pages.

The annual Musical America Awards will be presented in a special ceremony at Carnegie Hall on December 13.

Two previously unknown violin sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi have been uncovered after lying hidden in a collection of manuscripts for 270 years. More on: the BBC News Website

He's only a sophomore, but Jourdan Urbach has already changed the lives of children around the world, using his passion for music to do so. Read more on the Yale Bulletin Website.

Helen Boatwright, an American soprano renowned for her interpretations of Charles Ives, died on Wednesday in Jamesville, N.Y., outside Syracuse. She was 94 and had lived nearby in Fayetteville, N.Y. More on the New York Times website...

The Royal Opera House, eager to [...] challenge the Met's prominence in UK cinemas, is now developing what it hopes might be the next big thing for opera at the cinema: 3D. More on the Guardian's website...

The Library of Congress has begun taking possession of a huge donation of recordings, some 200,000 metal, glass and lacquer master discs from the period 1926 to 1948 that have been languishing in the subterranean vaults of Universal Music Group, the largest music conglomerate in the United States. More details on the NYTimes' website...

SchirmerOnDemand is an ever-expanding library-in-progress. Over 1000 of Schirmer's scores and samples are currently online and available for immediate viewing @ http://digital.schirmer.com/. Registration is required.

Read the full obituary on the New York Times website @ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/music/30babbitt.html

An interesting article about the work of this post-minimalist. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/arts/music/02julia.html

The first phase of a massive archival project was made public this Thursday. The New York Times discusses details of the project and materials (Bernstein years) The archive is accessible at http://archives.nyphil.org/

The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship.

Researchers can search or browse materials, access metadata about each item, and view digital images of the treasure via each custodial archive's Web site. The consortial collection will grow as members add more materials.

The Internet Music Score Library Project has been a highly successful website of free online scores. The New York Times talks to its founder, a 24 year-old Harvard student, Edward W. Guo.

"From its earliest days as a group of 13 men from the Class of 1863 to its current incarnation as an 80-voice chorus of men and women, the Yale Glee Club has been performing for audiences throughout the nation and around the world... More on the Yale Office of Public Affairs' website: http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8234

By linking to full-text historical (mostly-)German periodicals available freely on the Web, this Wikisource webpage brings together the efforts of many digitization initiatives (e.g. Google, HathiTrust, Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum, etc.) Access this wonderful resource at: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Zeitschriften_(Musik)

The New Haven Advocate describes the "Unsung Genius of Ingram Marshall" in its latest issue. The full article is available at: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/music-articles/the-unsung-genius-of-ingram-marshall-066426

Excerpts of videos of work by just about every important choreographer (Balanchine, Graham, Cunningham, etc.) are available for free of this famous dance festival's website. Available at: http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/

The National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others. Click here to visit the National Jukebox

An interesting article about the famous American pianist and the historical significance of his Russian triumph available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/world/europe/02russia.html.

Composer Mohammed Fairouz talks about the post-Arab spring era for Arab composers and the globalization of music. Read more at: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/after-tahrir-new-voices-in-a-global-fugue

Last Sunday (Sept. 11) was a stellar day for two Yale School of Music (YSM) composers. Garth Neustadter, a current student of composition at YSM, received an Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary "John Muir in the New World," and recent alumnus Yoshiaki Onishi won the prestigious Gaudeamus Prize 2011 for a piece he composed titled "Départ dans..." More details are available on the Yale Daily Bulletin's website: http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8877&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb-wall

In order to commemorate the bicentenary of Liszt's birth as well as to bring attention to the Library of Congress's substantial holdings of primary source material related to this composer, this website facilitates the exploration of the Library's rich resources for performing research on Liszt's life and career, as well as to publicize the public concerts and events that will be presented in conjunction with this celebration. Click here to learn more...

A fantastic exploration of the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Helmuth Rilling guides the viewer through the whole work via video masterclasses and discovery videos. You can also listen to the music while watching the manuscript score unfold. The website is available at: http://oregonbachfestival.com/digitalbach/

This summer the Tanglewood Festival celebrates its 75th Anniversary. As part of this historical milestone the Festival and its resident orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, are releasing free streams of historical performances everyday until early September. Check it out at: http://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/features/from-the-audio-archives/

The Internet Archive has a live music collection of over 100,000 concerts from over 5,000 bands (including an almost complete collection of Grateful Dead concerts). Take a look here...

The dean of American modernist composers, Elliott Carter, died in New York City Monday. He was just about a month shy of his 104th birthday. More details on NPR's blog, Deceptive Cadence.

Dave Brubeck, a pianist and composer whose distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility made him one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, died Wednesday morning in Norwalk, Conn. He would have turned 92 on Thursday. More details on the NYTimes...

Not sure how to play your part?! The NY Philharmonic has put up massive amounts of pdfs of marked-up orchestral parts from their library!!! These are fascinating documents. Take a look here...

Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles'. Sir Colin Davis, the London Symphony Orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor, died this weekend. Friends, colleagues and collaborators remember an inspirational teacher, a champion of new music – and a mean food-fighter. Read more on the Guardian's website...