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The Australian conductor Jessica Cottis followed her agent Naomi Ives last year when Ives quit IMG to join K D Schmid. Cottis has now walked out on Ives to rejoin IMG. It’s the season of […]

The Dutch orchestra, where Lahav Shani is chief conductor until next year, has issueda very strong statement against the Flanders Festival ban on his performance with the Munich Philharmonic. Here’s the unequivocal Rotterdam text: Rob […]

This is a message from Jan van den Borre, of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, to members of the Dutch Culture Council. Van den Borre is the incoming director of the Flanders Festival. Things […]