Richard Bratby, in a poignant analysis in The Critic of the slow suicide of Arts Council England, concludes with this important point: The arm’s-length principle is one aspect of the Arts Council that needs to […]
Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]
The Israeli composer Ella Sheriff, widow of Noam Sheriff who died six years ago, got married in a private New York ceremony yesterday to Noam Ziv, from Jerusalem. Our blessings to the happy couple. Ella […]
Twogether Duo and Carol Main Live Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their careers with professional performance and training opportunities, making live music accessible […]
The persistent journalist Axel Brüggemann has obtained confirmation of long-running rumours that the artistic director of the Salzburg Festival Markus Hinterhäuser has been blacklisted by the Cafe Bazar, a popular watering hole. Ours not to […]
The Society for American Music has announced the death of Charles Hiroshi Garrett, general editor of the 2013 second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music. He was a member of the faculty of […]
It died, for lack of funds and an excess of interference by individual board members. The death last week of Mary Sharp Cronson reminded one of our readers that she was the force behind the […]
The Bonn festival, in October, has booked Belgium’s B’Rock Orchestra to contextualise the first symphony: The B’Rock Orchestra feels like an integral part of society and wants to contribute to a meaningful discussion. In its […]
From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the Granada Festival: ‘A personal passion of mine is the music of Vaughan Williams, the great English composer, which is not really played anywhere. So we shall be […]