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The long read: Fresh allegations against Houston horn
In May last year, Rice University in Texas fired horn professor William VerMeulen after allegations of sexual misconduct with female students, which he denied. VerMeulen was suspended for two months from playing in the Houston […]
August? That’s the best of the Proms
From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]
An enormously intense, personal experience: composer Michael Zev Gordon on writing A Kind of Haunting, his new piece inspired by his family’s experience of the Holocaust
Michael Zev Gordn at site of his grandfather’s murder in Summer 1941 (image from DW video). Any human calamity raises thoughts about how such events might be referred to in music, and how an essentially […]
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