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From MIT News: Professor Emeritus Barry Lloyd Vercoe, a pioneering force in computer music, a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab, and a leader in the development of MIT’s Music and Theater Arts […]

The German recorder player and ensemble leader Dorothee Oberlinger has been awarded 30,000 Euros for … being a recorder player. The award is the ‘Grand Cultural Prize’ of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland. The jury in its […]

The veteran Estonian conductor, 88, suffered a fall in the podium while conducting at the national song festival yesterday. He told local media from his hospital bed today that he’s feeling fine but ‘will need […]

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just completed a well-received tour of Japan. Not a word has appeared on the orchestra’s website, where the news section has not been updated since May 1. The […]

The influential French composer’s 150th anniversary, utterly ignored in Paris, is top and second of this week’s Apple streaming charts (shared exclusively by slippedisc.com): 1 Satie: Discoveries Alexandre Tharaud 2 Chapeau Satie Xuefei Yang 3 […]

A reader has asked us to identify Alexander Maloffeev’s post-Gershwin encore (38:00 on the video) from this description:   Over an elaborately arpeggiated left hand, the right hand plays a chordal descending major scale of […]

We’re excited to report that the relentlessly serious opera-buff bible Avant-Scène Opéra will resume publication in November after being shut down by its previous owner in February. Jules Cavalié, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, says: ‘I […]