Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra unable to agree on new conductorMay 12, 2015 - 17:05 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra have been unable to agree on who should be their next chief conductor and artistic director. After 11 hours of secret discussions, the musicians could not reach a decision on a replacement for Sir Simon Rattle, who steps down in 2018. Board member Peter Riegelbauer said they would try again "within a year". The orchestra's 123 members met in a south-west Berlin church on Monday, May 11, and were banned from using mobile phones. But after an announcement was delayed several times, Riegelbauer said: "I must unfortunately tell you that we haven't reached any result." From 2018, Sir Simon is to join the London Symphony Orchestra as its music director. Among his possible successors are: -Latvian Andris Nelsons, 37, who heads the Birmingham and Boston symphony orchestras -Venezuelan Gustavo "the Dude" Dudamel, 34, who conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic -Berlin native Christian Thielemann, 56, at the Staatskapelle Dresden The Berlin Philharmonic, founded in 1882, has had three chief conductors over the past six decades: Herbert von Karajan 1954-89; Claudio Abbado 1989-2002 and Sir Simon Rattle 2002-15. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |