The Mendelssohn Club and others has lamented the passing of its music director Alan Harler. In his tenure of more than 20 years, Harler commissioned and premiered more than 50 new works, including David Lang’s battle hymns (2009), Jennifer Higdon’s On the Death of the Righteous (2008), Charles Fussell’s High Bridge (2003), Roberto Sierra’s Lux æterna (1996) and Robert Moran’s Requiem: Chant du Cygne (1990),
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A conversation I filmed with the conductor in Zurich, a dozen years ago. A lovely man, lacking in pomposity and self-regard. Enjoy. The post Roger Norrington: I kiss the musicians, then I kick off my […]
The soprano Anna Netrebko and her tenor husband Yusif Eyvazov have told the Austrian Press Agency that their marriage is over. ‘After ten happy years together, we have made the difficult but friendly decision to […]
Message from Andreas Schrager: Leider muss ich aufgrund einer Infektion der oberen Atemwege die heutige Vorstellung „Parsifal“ absagen. Ich möchte mich bei allen, die sich meinetwegen Karten dafür gekauft hatten, aufrichtig entschuldigen. Diese Entzündung machte […]
