Arguably the least musical US national anthem

The verdict is just in from the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, held over ten days at the Helsinki Music Centre. The winners are: 1st Prize €30,000: Sueye Park 2nd Prize €20,000: Minami Yoshida (Japan) 3rd […]

The image below has gone up on a wall at the stage door of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC, days after the Veep was booed at a symphony concert.   View […]

Adherents of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra awoke this morning to learn that their concert hall is going to be put out of action for several years. ‘Structural deficiencies’ have been discovered and the electronic acoustic […]