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 violist Ori Kam has stepped down from the Jerusalem Quartet after 15 years. He says: ‘The past few years have been challenging for me and the quartet’. He speaks also of ‘new professional opportunities.’ […]
With the departure of founding artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han, teir successors were announced today. It’s another twosome – cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist Hyeyeon Park. The post New team at Music@Menlo appeared […]
The compromised Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo – widely banned outside Italy after allegations of sexual misconduct – has suffered a physical setback to his career in Russia. Yesterday, while singing the role of Cavaradossi in […]
