The death has been reported of Raul Barboza, master of the accordion who weaned the French off their wheezy soundscape onto a Latinate cosmopolitanism. Raul was 87. He migrated to France almost half a lifetime ago, in 1987.
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Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera on Dostoievsky novel The Idiot has received audience ovations and ecstatic reviews at the Salzburg Festival. The director Krzysztof Warlikowski updates the story to Putin’s Russia, replete with characters selling their souls […]
Conductor Ivan Fischer writes: It is with deep sadness that I share the grief of the family and the whole Hungarian music world: we have lost György Konrád, Pamacs, the wonderful violinist and friend. As […]
Two recent arts features illuminate the limitations of Times classical music journalism in these straitened times. A report on the San Francisco Symphony by Robin Pogrebin and Javier C. Hernández omitted to mention the brilliant […]
