Arguably the least musical US national anthem

The premier English rural choral festival has reached deep into the  Australian outback for its next CEO. David Francis is head of Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Before that he worked for the BBC Symphony Chorus, […]

The German-Colombian conductor Anna Handler who starts this month as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has just fired her agents at Opus3 and KD Schmid. Handler, 28, has moved instead to Tanja Dorn’s […]

The death has been made known of Raymond Warren, composer in residence at the Ulster Orchestra and professor at Queens University Belfast, 1966-72. During those years he befriended a fellow-teacher Seamus Heaney creating an instrumental […]