From a correspondent: I am a retired full time chorister who worked at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from the mid-1970s until recently. When I started, I made $125/week for 13 weeks and about $4/hr […]
The much-admired international violinist Eugene Sarbu died yesterday in a private hospital in London. He had been suffering from a protracted illness. The first Romanian violinist after Georges Enescu to catch the world’s ear, Sarbu […]
A storm is still raging over the refusal of the Queen Elisabeth Competition winner, the Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, to shake the hand of one of the judges, the Russian violinist Vadim Repin. Udovychenko, 24, […]