San Diego’s symphony hall, the Jacobs Music Center, is reopening this weekend after extensive refurbishment with Mahler’s second symphony.
As an unusual prelude to the ribbon cutting, music director Rafael Payare took the oath of US citizenship.
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The Royal Opera has notified Friends that they will not be allowed to attend the general rehearsal of Die Walküre on April 25. Aggrieved Friends asked us why. Here’s the official reply: The Friends haven’t been […]
… One of several racist slogans smeared on an Israeli-owned jazz club in New York which was attacked by racists with red paint. Report here. pictured: Club owner Omer Avital The post ‘Zionists can’t make […]
From my new essay in The Critic: The biggest noise to be heard in orchestral music is not the click and whirr of audience smartphones shooting TikTok clips in the slow movement. Nor is it […]
