The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]
The revived 16th International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in Salonika ended with the jury, chaired by Thomas Sanderling, withholding first prize. Second went to a Russian, Sergey Akimov. Third was shared between Oliver Cope (UK) and […]
The hymn Be Still, My Soul takes its music from Finlandia by Jean Sibelius. It has less grip on the incoming president’s attention than the future sovereignty of Greenland. He talks right through the hymn. […]