The Dutch choral world is in mourning for Bas Ramselaar, an imperious bass singer and chorus conductor who has died after a seven-month illness. Bas enjoyed an international career as soloist with majopr orchestras.
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Richard Wagner’s only comic opera had a long gestation. Summer 1845: drawing on the History of German Literature as well as the biography of poet and shoemaker Hans Sachs, the composer sketches out ideas for a satirical […]
This is core repertoire, so it needs to be special. It is. For his ninth recording with Decca (he signed in 2011, when he became the youngest British musician and the first British pianist in over sixty […]
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New World Symphony Veterans Day Concert: A World War II Journey – Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall (Photo: Alex Markow, courtesy of New World Symphony) New World Symphony Veterans Day Concert: A World War II […]
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