The entrepreneur Mandle Cheung, 78, conducted the Toronto Symphony in Mahler’s second symphony this week. According the New York Times he paid less than $400,000 for the privilege. That’s dirt cheap. Norio Ohga, Sony’s CEO, […]
The last to sing the role in 1957 was Montserrat Caballe. Before her, Callas. It seems the Milan public won’t accept cheap substitutes. Tonight, Marina Rebeka will sing Norma, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya is Adalgisa and Freddie […]
The Mendelssohn Club and others has lamented the passing of its music director Alan Harler. In his tenure of more than 20 years, Harler commissioned and premiered more than 50 new works, including David Lang’s […]
Many French musicians regret the passing of Fuminori Tanada, pianist of the contemporary music group Ensemble Itineraire for which he also composed. Originally from Okayama he studied ciomposition at the National University of Art and […]
The Conservatoire de Paris has appointed the Berlin-based Italian composer Clara Iannotta as professor of composition from the next academic year. Iannotta, 42, is believed to be the first woman to hold the influential position. […]
It has been announced today that Dame Kathryn McDowell will retire as Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra a year from now. She has been in the job for two decades, with three music […]
Apache Dance An Apache dance, if you’ve never come across one before, is a highly dramatic performance associated with Parisian street culture at the beginning of the 20th century. It reenacts a violent “discussion” between […]
This summer, the Between Mountains Festival makes its debut on 19 July at Holdenweid in Hölstein, Switzerland. More than just another music festival, Between Mountains seeks to redefine how classical music is presented and experienced […]
Scriabin, Bach, Beethoven Nicolas Namoradze (piano). Wigmore Hall, 23.06.2025 Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 (1912/13) Bach Prelude & Fugue in E, BWV 878 (WTC II) Scriabin Fugue in E minor, WoO 20 (1892) Bach […]
The phenomenally successful Argentine-US composer has died at 93. An associate of Astor Piazzola, he hooked up with Dizzy Gillespie’s band in the 1960s and worked a ferile line between Larin music and jazz. When […]
