The Dutch conductor, ousted after a six-year spell at the New York Philharmonic, has been named artist in residence with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.
He is also music director of the Seoul Philharmonic in Korea and, srarting soon, of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Quite the portfolio maestro.
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Continuing our ongoing survey of the symphonies of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), we reach the richly complex Fourth symphony in C-Minor, Op. 39 of 1919. The subtitle is, in Swedish, “Från Havsbandet”; in English, “From the […]
The London Symphony Orchestra has informed ticket-holders: Conductor François-Xavier Roth has withdrawn from his engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra in the 2024/25 season. The LSO is grateful to Thomas Adès for stepping in to […]
Rachel Reeves has lopped 5 percent off the budget of the Department of Culture Media Sport and Digital, amid persistent reports that the entire DCMS is to be dismantled. It’s not clear how the cut […]
