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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We have been notified of the passing of Stuat Burrows, a leading internmational tenor who had his own BBC series for two seasons, Stuart Burrows Sings. Starting out most in concert performances, he made his […]
President Vladimir Putin honoured bass singer Ildar Abdrazakov at the Russian Federation National Awards on Wednesday. Abdra, a pal of Gergiev and the Netrebkos, told Putin: ‘”Vladimir Vladimirovich, thanks to you, I started playing hockey.’ […]
The first conductor at the 2025 festival this week will be Daniele Gatti, rejected as chief conductor at La Scala Milan in favour of Myung Whun Chung. He conducts a new production by Matthias Davids […]
