Anna Lapwood is disengaged

Leonard Slatkin remembers: It was a hastily arranged marriage. The National Symphony Orchestra was looking for a new music director, and after André Previn turned down the job offer, I was approached. My relationship with […]

The president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which looks after radio and TV sound archives, was has been suspended from his duties today by Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Laurent Vallet, 55, had admitted to […]

The Malmö Symphony Orchestra has appointed the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Rainer Honeck to be its Honorary Guest Conductor. The ‘honorary’ renders the title almost meaningless. He won’t have to do much. Honeck, 64, has been […]