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08.21.2009 2:57 pm

Singers: Thin is in, but…

By Sarah Bryan Miller

Post-Dispatch Classical Music

De Niese as Cleopatra

An article by Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent for Britain’s Observer, notes the new dominance of slender, sexy sopranos at Austria’s Salzburg Festival. (See it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/16/opera-slimline-divas/print) Singers like…

Tags: classical music, Danielle de Niese, Elina Garanca, Joan Sutherland, Marina Rebeka, Observer, opera, Salzburg Festival, Sarah Bryan Miller, singers, Susan Elliott, Vanessa Thorpe

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08.13.2009 11:15 am

SLSO: “Doctor Atomic” Symphony hits #2 on classical charts

By Sarah Bryan Miller

Post-Dispatch Classical Music

The newly released Nonesuch recording by David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony and “A Guide to Strange Places” has hit the number two spot on the Nielsen/SoundScan “Top Traditional Classical Albums Chart,”…

Tags: "A Guide to Strange Places", "Doctor Atomic" Symphony, Billboard, David Robertson, Financial Times, Guardian, John Adams, Newark Star-Ledger, Nielsen/SoundScan, Nonesuch, Observer, Sarah Bryan Miller, SLSO, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Times

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