Arguably the least musical US national anthem

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]

The Bolshoi press service has announced the death of baritone Vladislav Verestnikov, one of its long-serving stalwarts. Originally from Kharkiv, he was married to fellow-Ukrainian soprano Lyudmila Sergienko. The post Bolshoi star dies, 77 appeared […]

We present the opening paragraphs of a civil case presented at an Illinois court, citing the successors of Bein & Fushi for alleged fraud. Plaintiffs Eric Langman and Claude Langman (collectively, “Plaintiffs” or the “Langman […]