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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The death has been announced, after a long illness, of the drum professor Martin France. Using electronic and sequenced drums and percussion, France featured on more than 100 albums and appeared regularly in Hamburg with […]
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What does it mean to “make it” as an artist in the 21st century? From 11 to 28 June 2024, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama will be presenting Making It, a new festival […]
The perennially failing Public Radio station has slashed 21 jobs, amounting to 7.7% of the workforce. Among those sacked, we hear, is the atation’s well-connected chief content officer Ed Yim (pic), former CEO of the […]
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