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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They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava. The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him. ‘A faraway country of which we […]
We have received depressing reports of the shrunken state of the Teatro Colon, South America’s foremost opera house. Next season contains just six operas, the following season five. The conductors – Beatrice Venezi and Zoe […]
The US pianist has gone back to her first agent, Tania Dorn, now operating a successful boutique. The drift from big-barn agency to small continues. It seems Dinnerstein has also dropped her exclusivity with ailing […]
