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	Simon Rattle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rattle was born in Liverpool, and studied at Liverpool College.
		In 1999, Rattle was appointed as successor to Claudio Abbado as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, widely seen as the most prestigious conducting post in the world.
		Before leaving for Germany and on his arrival, Rattle controversially attacked the British attitude to culture in general, and in particular the artists of the Britart movement, together with the poor state funding of culture in the UK.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Rattle (677 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| SIR SIMON RATTLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool in January 1955, the son of parents who were musical enthusiasts but not professional musicians.
		Rattle was convinced he was the man for the job, the new manager Ed Smith had been one of his closest colleagues in Liverpool, and together they set about reinvigorating the orchestra in the most spectacular fashion.
		Rattle’s election to the Berlin Philharmonic (a full three years before he actually took up the post at the end of Claudio Abbado’s time there) was a sensation, but not perhaps a surprise to those who had watched his development closely.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/srab.html (2179 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		In the 120-year history of the orchestra, Simon Rattle conducted his first concert as the sixth Chief Conductor and the new Artistic Director of the Berlin Philharmonic on September 7, 2002.
		Simon Rattle's role as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker binds a relationship that began 15 years ago.
		Simon Rattle's concert repertoire has always included the "unknown": in September 1990 he conducted the premiere of Gubaidulina's Alleluja, in January 1991 he conducted Szymanowski's Stabat Mater and in September 1992 he introduced the Berlin public to Josef Suk's Asrael symphony.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=144 (775 words)

	Schoenberg & Bruckner: Dawn Upshaw (sop), Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, RFH, 11th October 2002 (MB) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In both outer movements Rattle was almost identical in timing to that conductor’s famous 1944 Berlin performance, but of even greater similarity is the same gut-wrenching power, the same intense sonority and the same marked deliberation of tempi which marks Furtwängler’s performance out as the seminal recording of this symphony.
		Rattle, in one of the most selfless performances I can ever recall by him, charmed his orchestra into giving their souls to this symphony.
		Rattle’s greatness as a conductor is precisely this: an ability to charge his players with his own innate emotions, no matter how naked and raw they may be.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2002/Aug02/SBRattle.htm (1142 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Doubts over Simon Rattle's future at BPO
		Sir Simon Rattle is one of Britain's most famous cultural exports, and music director of the most glamorous orchestra in the world.
		The newspaper article, by cultural commentator Axel Brüggemann, suggested that "while Rattle romps expressively on the podium, the Philharmonic musicians sometimes tend to play as inconsequentially as if they were a wife reaching to the fridge to get out a beer for her husband".
		Sir Simon's election to the directorship of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1999 was greeted with unabashed joy by Britons, and was even the occasion for a breathless editorial in the Sun.
	www.guardian.co.uk /germany/article/0,2763,1205607,00.html (913 words)

	Simon Rattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Yet at age 25, Simon Rattle was recording it with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra -- it's a mark of EMI's faith (and England's) in this conductor that his first recording of a major orchestra work was a two-disc release of an unfinished, and controversial, Mahler symphony.
		Rattle's Mahler Fourth is a caprice, a child's view of the symphonic process, its mood changing as often as a two-year-old's.
		Rattle, who back in 1991 was castigated by Norman Lebrecht in Classic CD ("Simon Rattle, who ought to know better, reverses the order of movements in the Sixth"), is undeterred.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/01/14/SIMON_RATTLE.html (1576 words)

	NPR: Performance Today -- Simon Rattles Beethoven
		Sir Simon Rattle brings PT listeners on an exclusive travelogue through his remarkable EMI set of live recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic of all nine of the Symphonies by Beethoven.
		With Beethoven as the central figure of the work, Rattle suggests that the second movement is a "funeral march for all his hopes of how his life would be." But, after the first two vast movements of struggle and pain, the symphony becomes lighter and returns to joy, wit and humour.
		Beethoven himself called it his "little Symph." Sir Simon Rattle is leading us through the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies, and we're hearing his vision of these works, in concert perfs by the Vienna Phil from the spring of 2002.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/features/2003/apr/rattle_beethoven.html (1439 words)

	Berliner Philharmoniker
		Sir Simon Rattle, was born in Liverpool in 1955.
		In 1980, Rattle was appointed principal conductor and artistic advisor to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and was the orchestra’s principal conductor from September 1980 to summer 1998.
		Sir Simon Rattle, who was knighted in 1994 by the Queen of England, has received many distinctions in recognition of his artistic activities.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4635_ma.html?selecteddate=01252006 (707 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Simon Rattle's Berlin battle
		We have become so used to comparing orchestral funding in Britain unfavourably with the situation in Germany that the news that Simon Rattle may not take up his appointment as the Berlin Philharmonic's artistic director in September 2002 for the sake of £1.1m (peanuts in German terms) is shocking and faintly absurd.
		Rattle is insisting that the orchestra be made into a self-governing foundation, with the power to make its own artistic and financial decisions - and that would require a change in state law.
		But the news coming out of Berlin suggests that this time, Rattle is beginning to feel that he is banging his head against a brick wall, and the Philharmonic fears he is now close to washing his hands of the whole business.
	www.guardian.co.uk /saturday_review/story/0,3605,507559,00.html (543 words)

	Mahler: Symphony No 9, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Barbican 28 October 2000 (MB) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is an interpretation that does not easily seduce the ears and, at moments throughout this performance, I was quite unsettled by Rattle's astonishing portrait of a composer battling between the poles of despair and hope.
		Rattle pulled emotion out of the LSO strings throughout the entirety of this movement, but was simply fabulous at the Wieder Zuruckhaltend marking just before tempo I. Here first and second violins achieved a unity of phrasing, a dynamic fragmentation of these 10 notes that was staggering.
		Rattle held a capacity hall spellbound as a single cello drew the threads of ppp violins and violas to its dying close.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2000/oct00/mahler9.htm (786 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Rattle: Not much, but it reminds of the story of Stalin getting Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Kachaturian into a room and telling them to write something.
		Rattle: One of the things when I went to Birmingham about 20 or so years ago was that none of the British symphonies, except for the BBC, had been playing much European contemporary music.
		Rattle: I think we may be moving back toward an age when classical music and other forms or music are less segregated from each other.
	www.sequenza21.com /Rattle.html (1890 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / How to Spend it - 'Pied piper' should follow his head or heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rattle's initial responses to music have always been emotional, but like Karajan at the same stage in his career, the controlling hand is in the ascendant.
		Rattle and Karajan may seem the unlikeliest of twins, and yet at Salzburg this Easter, similarities are beginning to appear.
		Rattle's flame lights up whenever the music does, but he knows this score no more intimately than the orchestra, no does he know when to let rip.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/57837e90-9a78-11d9-a094-00000e2511c8.html (1118 words)

	Sir Simon Rattle And Birmingham Symphony Begin U.S. Tour In Hancher
		But when 25-year-old Simon Rattle arrived in Birmingham in 1980 to conduct the city's symphony, he found a demoralized, little-regarded outfit in an industrial city with scant cultural tradition.
		Now he is Sir Simon Rattle, and the CBSO travels from its new $48 million home to present keenly anticipated concerts around the world.
		Rattle has become a high-profile cultural spokesman, a top-tier conductor who also loves jazz and has the popularizing touch associated in America's mind with Leonard Bernstein.
	itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu /uns-archives/1998/april/0424rattle.html (700 words)

	Sir Simon Rattle
		SIR SIMON RATTLE was born in Liverpool in 1955 and, at the age of 16, went to the Royal Academy of Music in London to study conducting.
		Simon Rattle has led the CBSO on many outstandingly-successful tours, including Europe and Scandinavia and the Orchestra's first visits to the Far East and North America and subsequent returns there.
		In the 1987 New Years Honours Simon Rattle was awarded the C.B.E. for his services to Music and in June 1994, he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours List.
	www.concertartist.info /biog/RAT001.html (1025 words)

	Telegraph Blogs: Foreign: Kate Connolly: June 2006: Conducting change in Germany
		As many look towards Rattle’s launch of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle with "Rheingold" in Aix en Provence this Friday as a gauge to how well he's working with the orchestra, he also addressed criticism that he was moving the BPO away from its traditional dark, rich tones.
		Rattle says he has tried to bring both "movement and light" into the music, and that Germans should recognise that their art and music doesn't always have to be heavy and ponderous to be of value.
		Rattle, by contrast, is irritating in the concert hall.
	blogs.telegraph.co.uk /foreign/kateconnolly/june06/conducting.htm (1222 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts news \| Rattle's Berlin Philharmonic failing to thrill, says critic
		Rattle - who got the job as principal conductor in 1999, widely regarded as the most prestigious conducting post in the world - performed too few great German works, Mr Brug complained.
		Rattle and the orchestra "were no longer madly in love", he added.
		Before leaving for Germany, Rattle attacked the British attitude to culture in general, and in particular the artists of the Britart movement, together with the poor state funding of culture in the UK.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,,1782438,00.html (956 words)

	Simon Rattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During the first concert of Sir Simon Rattle's return visit to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, near the end of the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Rattle leaned over to the second violins, who were sitting in authentic 19th-century fashion opposite (instead of next to) the first violins (you could actually hear their "dialogue").
		Rattle was lucky in his Eroica ensemble because he got the second-desk clarinet (Thomas Martin) and oboe (Mark McEwen, who got a deserved solo ovation, surely for his moving contribution to the funeral march), who were eloquently compatible with each other and with marvelous principal flute Jacques Zoon.
		Rattle preceded the Eroica with a BSO rarity: a suite from the Jean-Philippe Rameau opera Les Indes galantes ("Indies gallantry").
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/01/21/SIMON_RATTLE.html (1579 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Sir Simon Rattle, the conductor, has left his wife of eight years and is believed to be seeing a glamorous blonde opera singer 18 years his junior.
		Although she was living with her Parisian boyfriend when she met Sir Simon, it is rumoured that a close relationship developed between Miss Kozena and the conductor, who was dividing his time between his marital homes in London and Berlin.
		Lady Rattle was not answering the telephone or the door yesterday at the couple's four-storey Georgian townhouse in Islington, north London.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/18/nratt18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/18/ixportal.html (932 words)

	Rattle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up rattle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Bird-scaring rattle, a Slovene device used to drive birds off vineyards and a folk instrument
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rattle (115 words)

	Simon Halsey
		Simon is a regular guest conductor working extensively with major orchestras and choirs all over the world.
		At Sir Simon Rattle's invitation, Simon Halsey formed the young professional choir European Voices, which made a sensational debut at the Salzburg Festival at Whitsun 1999 in Rameau's Les Boréades with Sir Simon and a subsequent debut appearance at the BBC Proms.
		Simon is consultant editor to Faber Music in the UK and to Hal Leonard in the USA and fronts a prestigious best-selling series of choral publications.
	www.ehrsamproductions.com /archive/inter/artist/halsey.html (789 words)

	Berlin Philharmonic Music Director Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra in Finney Chapel December 1
		November 19, 2004—Sir Simon Rattle, music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, will conduct the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Wednesday, December 1, 2004, at 8 p.m.
		The orchestral members of the Berlin Philharmonic voted for Sir Simon Rattle to succeed Claudio Abbado as the chief conductor of their orchestra in June 1999.
		Simon Rattle conducted his first concert in that post and as the orchestra's new artistic director on September 7, 2002, although he had already worked with the Berlin Philharmonic for 15 years, making his debut on November 14, 1987, with Mahler's Sixth Symphony, and appearing regularly on the conductor's rostrum in the years that followed.
	www.oberlin.edu /newserv/04oct/sirSimonRattle.html (954 words)

	NPR : Performance Today -- Berliners Rattle Carnegie
		After their first full year together, Rattle and the Berliners embark on their first U.S. tour, making a stop at Carnegie Hall for three programs of music ranging from Haydn to the U.S. premiere of a new work by Henri Deutilleux.
		Rattle admits that part of his job involves keeping this incredible tradition alive while taking the group into the 21st century by introducing more new repertory, and also bringing an element of period performance practice to some of their earlier repertory.
		In an interview with PT host Fred Child, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross claims that Rattle has not had a huge, noticeable impact on the orchestra in just one year, though his lively personality is certainly felt in terms of how the orchestra plays, and how they approach and interpret the works.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/features/2003/nov/rattle_carnegie.html (289 words)

	Simon Rattle
		It's getting harder to deny the tantalizing potential of Simon Rattle as Philadelphia Orchestra boss, a vision that was denied to so many local movers and shakers.
		By whatever smoke and mirrors at his disposal, Rattle has revitalized that band, like a giddy adolescent aiming a blowtorch at tradition, with the same energy that made his name years ago in the British provinces, turning a localized ensemble in Birmingham into an international force to be reckoned with.
		Rattle seems to be genuinely flattered by the attention accorded him here in Cheesesteakville.
	citypaper.net /articles/2006-02-09/musicpicks3.shtml (225 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Simon Rattle's Ring of truth
		Any lingering doubts Simon Rattle might have entertained about performing Das Rheingold with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment must have been quickly dispelled by the ecstatic shout of joy that greeted its closing bars.
		Rattle's conducting and the radiant quality of the playing laid bare everything in the score.
		Rattle allowed the brass to fill the hall with a gorgeous, lustrous blaze as the falling-tone motif made its first of many appearances.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1287972,00.html (983 words)

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