Parts of the new, revised and corrected edition of all Shostakovich symphonies are now available. The first group of four publications spans the composer's life from his youthful Symphony No. 1 through Nos. 9 and 11 to his enigmatic farewell with No. 15.

No. 15 is to be completed by the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in 2025. The first four volumes of the edition, Nos. 1, 9, 11 and 15, are published as large-format study scores for optimum readability. All scores and the accompanying orchestral parts have been provided with new computer typesetting, and the orchestral parts are also compatible for performance with the scores in "The New Collected Works of Dmitri Shostakovich".

As the British music journalist Norman Lebrecht explains in his magazine Slipped Disk, the publishers do not specify how serious the errors were in earlier scores from the Soviet and post-Soviet era.

Recent neurological research sees dance as an ideal intervention for neurological diseases and disorders such as MS or Parkinson's disease. They emphasize the potential role of dance and music in overcoming motor barriers and improving psychosocial well-being and quality of life. The creative practice and approach of the Connect project is based on evidence-based research in the innovative field of dance and neurology. Movement offers participants the opportunity to connect with themselves and their environment. Dancing shapes and encourages balance, expression, posture and creativity.

The impetus for the collaboration came from the new ballet director of Ballett Zürich, Cathy Marston, whose ballet "The Cellist" tells the life story of Jacqueline du Pré, who suffered from MS and died at an early age. The project is a collaboration between the Tonhalle Society Zurich, Zurich Opera House, Zurich performance group The Field and the Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation.

The project is supported by the Parkinson's Society Switzerland, the MS Society Switzerland and the Neurological Clinic of the University Hospital Zurich. The kick-off and information event will take place on Friday, November 3, 2023, in the Tonhalle.

More info:
https://www.tonhalle-orchester.ch/saisonschwerpunkte/connect

Born in 1933, the German-Austrian Hatto Beyerle studied violin, composition and conducting in Freiburg i. Breisgau and Vienna. He was a co-founder of ensembles such as the Vienna Soloists, the Alban Berg Quartet and L'Ensemble. Beyerle has won numerous record prizes, including the Grand Prix du Disque and the German Record Prize. As a chamber musician, he was twice awarded the title Artist of the Year by the German Phono Academy.

From 1964 to 1987, he was a professor at the Vienna Academy of Music, before moving to the Hanover Academy of Music. From 1990 to 2004 he taught as a professor at the Music Academy of the City of Basel. Since 1998, he has regularly given master classes at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Florence) as well as guest courses for viola and chamber music in the USA and Canada.

Maxime Pascal is a specialist in French music of the 20th century and new music. In the field of opera, he conducted Salvatore Sciarrino's Te vedo, ti sento, mi perdo at La Scala in Milan, which he later brought to the Staatsoper Berlin. In 2021, he conducted a new production of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from light at the Philharmonie de Paris. In Geneva, he conducted Peter Eötvös' opera Sleepless.

Founded in 1911, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (HSO) consists of around 60 musicians. In recent years, it has been conducted by Hans-Peter Frank (1980-1990), Andrew Manze (2006-2014) and, since 2014, Stefan Solyom.

Bourgue studied oboe with Etienne Baudo and chamber music with Fernand Oubradous at the Conservatoire National de Musique Paris. He won first prize for oboe at international competitions in Paris in 1958 and first prize for chamber music in 1959. He won further competitions in Geneva in 1963, Birmingham in 1965, Munich in 1967, Prague in 1968 and Budapest in 1970.

Maurice Bourgue was appointed to the Orchestre de Paris by Karl Münch in 1967, where he was principal oboist until 1979. In 1972 he founded an octet which bears his name. The octet consists of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris. As musical director of the Sandor Végh International Chamber Music Academy, he devoted himself to teaching at the music academies in Paris and Geneva and gave master classes in Budapest, London, Lausanne, Moscow, Jerusalem, Oslo and Kyoto.

Born in Monthey in 1950, François-Xavier Delacoste studied at the Lausanne Conservatory and later in Geneva. He specialized in orchestration, orchestral conducting and composition. He taught harmony, counterpoint and analysis at the Geneva Conservatory. From 1989 to 2005 he was director of the Neuchâtel Conservatory. He was also the artistic director of the international festival for choral music in Neuchâtel. From 2005 to 2015, he was director of the cantonal conservatory in Sion.

With the support of the Valais delegation of Loterie Romande, the Media library Valais the Valais Music Library since 2003. To date, it preserves over 17,000 recordings, 24,000 scores and 1,200 works and audiovisual media. Launched in 2018, the François-Xavier Delacoste collection is the sixth to be deposited at the Valais Media Library, following Pierre Mariétan in 2005, Jean-Luc Darbellay in 2009, Jean Daetwyler in 2013, Marie-Christine Raboud-Theurillat in 2016 and Oskar Lagger in 2018.

Joshua Weilerstein studied violin and conducting at the New England Conservatory and won both first prize and the audience prize at the Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen in 2009. He was subsequently appointed Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 2012 to 2015. From 2015 to 2021, he was Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Chief Conductor of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.

The Orchestre National de Lille is a French orchestra based in Lille. Jean-Claude Casadesus was music director of the orchestra from 1976 to 2016 and Alexandre Bloch from 2016. It is also the orchestra of the Opéra de Lille and also cultivates a contemporary repertoire with composers in residence.

According to a press release from the FSO, value added in the cultural industries once again exceeded the CHF 15 billion mark, but did not reach the pre-corona level. These are some of the new results from the Federal Statistical Office's (FSO) statistics on the cultural industries.

In 2021, the cultural sector recorded 1426 more companies than in 2020 (up 2.2%), with a total of 65,369 cultural enterprises. This figure is even higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic and represents a new high since 2011. The increase in the cultural sector (plus 2.2%) was therefore significantly higher than in the economy as a whole (plus 1.5%). It was most pronounced in the audio-visual and multimedia, visual arts and advertising sectors, weaker in architecture and even negative in books and press (minus 1.5%).

By contrast, the number of employees in the cultural sector rose less sharply in 2021 than in the economy as a whole. The upturn mainly affected small structures. The proportion of small cultural enterprises (fewer than 3 employees) was not only higher in 2021 than in 2020, but was even higher than in 2019.

SP-Onlinepromotion.com was a widely used website that sold artificially generated likes, plays/views, comments and subscribers on Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube, enabling it to illegally manipulate actual streaming views and thereby distort competition.

In Germany, the Federal Association of the Music Industry (BVMI) and IFPI had already succeeded in 2021 in prohibiting the operator of the streaming manipulation websites likeservice24.de and likeservice24.com from generating additional plays, views and likes as a service. In 2020, netlikes.de and likesandmore.de and other similar services had to be discontinued. The music industry has also taken measures elsewhere, including in Brazil, and is working with government authorities and interfaces in many countries to prevent the operation of such services.

Born in Emmental in 1936, Urs Frauchiger initially studied cello at the Hochschule für Musik. From 1970 he headed the music department of the Bern Radio Studio and from 1977 the Bern Conservatory. From 1992 to 1997, he also headed the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Frauchiger was also Secretary General of the European Conservatoires and Honorary Professor at the University of Bern.

Frauchiger became widely known for books such as "Was zum Teufel ist mit der Musik los? Eine Art Musiksoziologie für Kenner und Liebhaber" (1981/1982) and "Mit Mozart reden" (1990).

In 2017, Urs Frauchiger gave an interview to the Schweizer Musikzeitung on the subject of "sensitizing": Awaken openness to the phenomena. In it, he reported that he had been sensitized to listening by his singing mother and in the forest. He saw being attentive to everything that happens and being able to differentiate as the basis, but also the goal of learning and making music.

An excerpt: When I came to the Konsi for the first time as a third grader, not for lessons, I was only supposed to hand in drawings (...), it was also a primal experience for me: this house full of music; that there were so many people playing an instrument! I was the only one in the Emmental far and wide with my cello. I had to walk two kilometers to my teacher, and when I passed farmers, they always said: "Where are you going with your bass violin?" - "It's not a bass violin, it's a cello." - "How long do you have to practise before you can play it?" - "Casals practises eight hours a day and he's already 75!" They must have thought: The boy is a bit crazy.

The Bernese collective Arbre consists of Paul Butscher (flugelhorn, voice, synthesizer), Mélusine Chappuis (rhodes, synthesizer) and Xavier Almeida (drums, piano) and develops a sound world between jazz and alternative music.

The ZKB Jazz Prize has been awarded for 21 years. It promotes young, innovative Swiss bands and aims to enrich the diversity of the Swiss jazz scene. The competition for the prize takes place at the Moods jazz club in Zurich. The prize money is to be used for the music; for studio productions, CD and label costs, for instruments, advertising or bookings. This year's international jury consisted of Jane Cornwell (journalist, UK), Carlo Brühlhart (journalist, CH), Rabih Abou-Khalil (musician, LB), Elina Duni (musician, CH) and Martina Berther (musician and audience representative).

The German-Japanese conductor will take over the position from April 2025 for an initial period of three years. His contract will take the 43-year-old to Sapporo for eight weeks per season. He will be back in Japan in November 2024 before his contract begins.

Grandy studied cello, music theory and conducting in Munich, Basel and Berlin. After several years as a cellist, including with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, he began his career as a conductor as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and shortly afterwards won the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition. From 2015 to 2023, he was General Music Director at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.

According to a press release issued by the city of Chur, it has been pointed out several times in the context of the city's "cultural spaces" target that there is a major lack of performance opportunities, particularly for young bands. For this reason, the city council has set up "Newcomer Stages & Live Support", a new support program for young bands.

The pilot project was realized last year. In addition to opportunities to perform on the stages of the Cuadro22 and Palazzo Beat Club concert venues in Chur with professional infrastructure, the participating bands receive expert feedback. They will be advised by experts at a workshop and presented in a video portrait. This year, the spotlight will be on the Chur rock bands Dr. Dipshit, Revival and Reat.

On Friday, October 6, Dr. Dipshit & Revival will be playing at Cuadro22 in Chur. They mix their rock sound with elements of grunge and punk. On Saturday, October 7, Reat will be performing at the Palazzo Beat Club. The three band members and childhood friends from the Engadin now live in Chur. Their music is a mixture of alternative and punk rock and is sung in their mother tongue, Rhaeto-Romanic.

Lang completed his doctorate in composition in Ireland and in musicology in Austria. He has taught music theory at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, the HMT Rostock and the Institute for Music at the Hochschule Osnabrück. From 2010 to 2017, he initially worked as a lecturer and later as a professor of composition and music theory at the ZHdK. He then spent five years teaching historical and contemporary composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik "Hans Eisler" Berlin. Since 2018, he has been Professor of Music Theory (including composition) at the HMT Rostock.

Founded in 1994, the Rostock University of Music and Drama (hmt) is an international educational institution in the fields of music, drama, music teaching, theater teaching (performing arts) and musicology. The approximately 500 students come from 42 nations.

With the prize, which is endowed with 20,000 francs, the Basel government council is honoring the commitment of the co-founder and long-standing artistic director of the Gare du Nord, the station for new music in the former buffet rooms of the Badischer Bahnhof in Basel. Meiser came to Basel in 1988 as a young actress and member of the Basel Theater ensemble. After her acting career, she co-founded the Gare du Nord in 2002. Since then, the station for new music has developed into a renowned meeting place for the contemporary music scene from Switzerland and abroad.

The Basel Culture Promotion Prize is intended to send out a publicly visible cultural policy signal for young cultural initiatives. This year, the jury decided to award the 10,000 Swiss franc prize to the Basel Okra Collective. The group, consisting of Jean Foncé, Joy Asumadu, Anouchka Enziga, Glenn Asumadu, Tidiane Sane, Mirco Joao-Pedro, Imani Fux, Abdulmalik Abdi and Katie Omole, creates party places where discrimination has no place.