We reported in December that the Venezuelan violinist, Gabriela Lara, concertmaster of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, was Klaus Mäkelä’s first hire at the Chicago Symphony. It now turns out she is the first Latina in […]
Theb Guardian and Gramophone critic liked to attend concerts with a pocket score, which he signed and dated on the cover to remind him of the event. Ted died in July 2015, leaving his possessions […]
The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]