In the past few minutes it has been decided that the next chief at La Scala will be the Korean conductor Myung Whun Chung. Catch your breath. He will start in 2027. The favourite to […]
The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak. The […]
Dear Alma, I left my oboe on the train last week. It’s the third time in as many years. The first I blamed on Covid stress. The second was during my divorce. But this time […]