The Curtis Institute has issued fundraising figures for an 11-year campaign to maintain fee-free tuition. A total $255 million has been raised, doubling the existing endowment. Top gift was $55 million from Nina Baroness von […]
Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the Orchestre de […]
The venerated pianist, playing the first Shostakovich concerto last night in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic, asked the conductor Lahav Shani to announce that she was playing the encore for Alon Ohel, a prisoner […]