Watch: Jussi Björling comemmorates Jean Sibelius

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Season of Joy opened last night with Beethoven’s ninth to a packed house. A correspondent writes: ‘The near-capacity audience was bolstered by an offer of tickets for a pound […]

Starting out as assistant conductor to Antal Dorati in Minneapolis, Dr Robert Berglund founded the Minnesota Chorale and was Director of Music (1969-1995) at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church, the largest Lutheran congregation in the United […]

The conductor Gemma New has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s Birthday Honours. New, 37, said she was thrilled that the role of orchestral music in New […]