Today’s the day Sir Simon Rattle blows out 70 candles. Among many tributes, we have selected this beautiful article by Ariane Todes, former editor of Strad magazine, describing what it was like to play in […]
From a new essay in the Music Quarterly by Joseph N. Straus of the City University of New York. I find the article objectionable from the opening sentence on. Almost every assertion can be challenged, […]
The Monteverdi Choir and soloists will open the Edinburgh Festival with John Tavener’s eight-hour choral epic, The Veil of The Temple. The choir will be conducted by its new director, the British-Swiss baritone Jonathan Sells […]