The proto-modernist Frederik van Rossum died this week leaving a body of mostly piano works and a bevy of publishers whom he sacked.
His In memoriam Glenn Gould for piano, opus 43 of 1984 deserves more attention.
He was professor in Brussels and Liege and director of the the music academy in Watermael-Boitsfort.
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Merle Fahrholz has resigned after two years as intendant of the Essen Philharmonic and music theatre in western Germany. She’s 42 and there’s more to life than Essen. The post Essen, she’s had enough appeared […]
London Youth Opera’s latest production is a new opera, The Quest inspired by the Auden and Isherwood play, The Ascent of F6. The opera has a clear, contemporary message both for the young performers and for […]
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim has written an eye-opening feature in the NY Times on the growing recognition for musicians who play for patients in hospital, and the development of professional standards. …on a brisk January morning […]
