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Human rights activists, alongside 100 music artists, including Sting and Coldplay, are calling for the release of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who has been sentenced to death for the support of mass protests in Iran in autumn 2022. "Salehi's death sentence is the culmination of three years of judicial harassment including arrest, imprisonment and torture," the petition from the London-based organization Index on Censorship says. The singer has drawn attention to the human rights situation in Iran in many of his songs. In October 2023, Salehi was honoured with a Freedom of Expression Award by ...
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US rapper Macklemore has released a song about pro-Palestinian protests and announced that he will donate all proceeds from the song to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In the song, the 40-year-old singer from Seattle, said he is not voting for US President Joe Biden in November's presidential election. "The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all," he raps in the song released on Monday on his social media profiles. The rap, "Hind's Hall," is named after a Palestinian girl who was killed in an attack in Gaza. At protests at N...
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Universal Music Group has agreed a new licensing agreement which will see songs from its catalogue return to TikTok, three months after they were removed over a rights dispute. Universal withdrew its songs from the social media platform after a previous licence deal expired in January. The new agreement with TikTok will deliver better compensation for musicians and songwriters, the group said in a press statement on Thursday. The world's largest music company, Universal holds the rights to the catalogues of many leading artists including Billie Eilish and Adele. The group had previously critic...
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German conductor Justus Frantz has reportedly contracted blood poisoning in Russia and has been hospitalized ever since. The 79-year-old spent two weeks in the intensive care unit of a hospital in St Petersburg, where he has since been discharged but still needs two more weeks of treatment. "It started with the fact that I found it difficult to walk and every step became a problem for me. I also felt tired all the time. I wanted to teach my son, but I could only do that lying down because I was so weak," Frantz told the Bild mass-circulation newspaper. The conductor had visited his son Justus ...
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The Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös has died in Budapest at the age of 80 after a prolonged illness, his family announced on Sunday according to Hungarian media. Eötvös was internationally acclaimed for his contemporary music works inspired by the likes of Zoltan Kodaly, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. His preoccupation with space from an early age is said to have informed his works, and his Opus No. 1, the piano piece "Cosmos", was meant to evoke the first journey into space made by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This was later followed by 10 operas and orchestr...
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German composer Aribert Reimann died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age of 88, his music publisher Schott Music announced on Thursday, citing his family. At his last public appearance in February, Reimann had personally accepted the German Music Author Award from the GEMA collection society for his life's work. With more than 70 works, he was considered one of the most important and most frequently performed creators of contemporary music. His opera "Lear," based on William Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear," which premiered in 1978, made him world-famous. Having grown up in a musical family, Re...
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This year's Polar Music Prize goes to the US funk musician Nile Rodgers and the Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, an announcement on the prize's website revealed on Tuesday. Marie Ledin, the managing director of the music prize, explained the decision in favour of the musician and producer Rodgers ("Good Times," "We Are Family") with his timeless songs and his influence on pop culture. With regard to the award for the composer and conductor Salonen, Ledin praised his artistic curiosity, creativity and forward-looking approach to classical music. The Polar Music Prize was founde...
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The renowned Dresden Music Festival's Richard Wagner project is set to go abroad, with a series of performances of the German composer's "The Valkyrie" scheduled to be held in Prague on Saturday. "I am looking forward to the 'Valkyrie' premiere in Prague with great anticipation," Festival Director Jan Vogler told dpa in Dresden on Wednesday. "The Valkyrie" is one of the German composer's four epic music dramas that make up the famous "Ring of the Nibelung" cycle which, when performed whole, lasts some 15 hours. Musicians from the Dresden project plan to perform "The Valkyrie" in Prague on peri...
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Iranian Grammy Award winner Shervin Hajipour has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison following his artistic opposition to Iran's crackdown on protesters in 2022. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter said on his Instagram page on Friday that he had also been banned from travelling abroad for two years. In addition to the jail time, a court ordered him to produce music about "America's crimes against humanity." There were initially no comments from the judiciary about the ruling. Hajipour touched millions of people worldwide with his ballad "Baraye" ("For") during demonstration...
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