From our Prague partners, OperaPlus: Almost half of Czechs cannot name any classical music composer. Most cited are Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart and Bedrich Smetana. That sounds like a great result. We’d be surprised if 1 […]
The death has been announced of the leading Turkish violinist Ayla Erduran, at the age of 90. Ayla studied with David Oistrakh in Moscow in 1957-58 and played duets with him in concert. She also […]
This year’s Wolf Prize in Music will go to the Hungarian composer György Kurtág, who is 98. The citation says: György Kurtág is awarded the Wolf Prize for presenting a shining example of a true […]