The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak.
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When did you last hear a concerto for squeezebox and symphony orchestra? It’s a refreshingly agreeable alternative bit of Bournemouth programming. The post Watch out: There’s an accordion in my orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Netherlands Bach Society has named Cecilia Bernardini as its new concermaster, starting next season. Bernardini, 41, is Dutch-Italian and a frequent guest with the high-octane Bach outfit. She is also co-artistic director of the Freiburger […]
The Rhode Island Philharmonic has named Ruth Reinhardt as its next music director. Originally from Saarbrücken, the daughter of two medical doctors, she studied with Alan Gilbert at Juilliard and won an assistantship at the […]
