Last month Covent Garden changed its brand to Royal Ballet and Opera. Today it announced Rolex as ‘principal partner’, whatever that might mean. Rolex makes watches exclusively for the super-rich. If that’s the image Covent […]
The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami has let is be known that Dean Shelly Berg will depart a year from now. Berg who turns 70 in August, is a classical and […]
I’ve started the year with quite a few less-than-stimulating new Classical recordings released in the past couple of months. While many are attractive, offering enticing repertoire, several of them have left me feeling a bit […]