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Violinist Nicola Benedetti Reveals Pressures from "Cut-Throat" Music Industry on BBC [AUDIO]

Joining various other prominent competition winners, Benedetti, who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year title in 2004 and has often been the U.K.'s highest-selling classical musician, has told BBC Radio Four that she was pushed too hard, too fast in the aftermath. Having won at 16, she told Desert Island Discs: "By the age of 17 or 18, I was going through a very tough time."

By James Inverne

Harvard Has Appointed Herbie Hancock as the 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, Following in the Footsteps of Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot

Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock has been appointed by Harvard University as the 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry. With that honor, Hancock will deliver six lectures, each with a different subject, but the 73-year-old Oscar-winning composer told the BBC they will "be mainly talking about my own experience and give them some stories."
By Nicole Oran
Classicalite's Top 10 of 2013: Brick Dozer on Avant

Avant gardener Brick Dozer surveys last year's crop o' records. Body/Head, Coming Apart (Matador) Lonnie Holley, Keeping a Record of It (Dust to Digital) Because Oxford American needs to see him.
By Brick Dozer

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Violinist Nicola Benedetti Reveals Pressures from "Cut-Throat" Music Industry on BBC [AUDIO]

Harvard Has Appointed Herbie Hancock as the 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, Following in the Footsteps of Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot

Classicalite's Top 10 of 2013: Brick Dozer on Avant

Access Contemporary Music Performs Music of Beck, Brazilian Composer Alexandre Lunsqui at Constellation in Chicago

Classicalite Weekender: Milli Vanilli Opera, Leshnoff Guitar Concerto in Bmore, 2014 Non-NYC Theater, Gibney Dance Moves, Owen's Pallett

Amiri Baraka, Jazz Laureate of Jersey, Dies in Newark at 79

New York Festival of Song's "NYFOS Next" Presents the Music of Mark Adamo and Friends

Los Angeles Master Chorale Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Bach's 'B Minor Mass' at Disney Hall

London's West End Attendance Unaffected by Apollo Theater Ceiling Collapse

The Short Column: Classical Music Benefits Kids, A(nother) Study Says

Quickies: 2Pac's 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' on Broadway, Anna Netrebko's Flu, Blue Note Yourself App, Bolshoi to Lincoln Center, Dickie Landry Story

Leon Botstein's American Symphony Orchestra Reveals “Creative Explosion” in English Music After World War I

Conductors in Conversation, No. 1: Manfred Honeck

Miller Theatre at Columbia’s "Bach, Revisited" Pairs His Masterpieces with Works by Saariaho, Reich and Tower

Irony Bites Man: Israeli Protester Ran Carmi Ruins Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's Non-Wagner Concert

New York Yankees Help Promote New 'Bronx Bombers' Broadway Musical

UPDATE: Polish Pianist Rafal Blechacz Receives the 2014 Gilmore Artist Award...and $300,000

Quickies: Dead Funny Kenny G, Operavore on Nudists, John Lurie on the Knicks, Selling Broadway to Sports Fans, Dance Dance Resolution