At a time of overwhelming anti-semitism, A Survivor from Warsaw comes as a timely reminder of what genocide really means.
It’s from the NDR Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
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Don Hazelwood joined the Orchestra in 1952 and was Concertmaster from 1965–1998. His wife Anne Menzies was Second Clarinet from 1968–1992. Their daughter Jane has played in the viola section since 1995. Jane’s youngest son […]
The latest UK lobby group is organising a ‘culture workers march’. The German countertenor Andreas Scholl is troubled by it. He writes: Open letter in response to the statement of “Classical music for Palestine”. The […]
At the beginning of the 1870s, Smetana faced a rising number of challenges to his position of artistic director of Prague’s opera ensemble. From this tense and pressured period for the composer sprang a work […]
