Top-selling pianist Vikingur Ólafsson will premiere John Adams’s new piano concerto with the San Francisco Symphony on January 16, with repeats on two successive nights.
The concerto is titled After the Fall, and look what comes next.
Performances are scheduled between January and May in Zurich, Hamburg and Vienna, with more to follow in London, Gothenburg and Los Angeles. Not a bad run for unheard new music.
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Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the Orchestre de […]
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From the Doyle sale catalogue: NEW YORK, NY — Following the success of his 1948 debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, and the publication of his 1949 first collection of short stories, A Tree of […]
