Canada dry: A city could run out of music
We have received this report from Taryn Luterbach, who runs a boutique artist management agency from the town of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada . Regina is a small city of less than 300,000 people, but […]
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Concertmaster takes charge of festival
This is slightly out of the ordinary. A festival in Australia has appointed the concertmaster of the nearest orchestra to be its next director. She is Kate Suthers of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The event […]
Does this amount to body-shaming? Or just bad writing?
A critical sentence on an opera-fan website has entangled Leipzig Oper in a body-shaming storm. The site is deropernfreund.de, the author is Dieter David Scholz and the opera is Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, which ought […]
Ruth Leon recommends…… The Rite of Spring – Joffrey Ballet
Le Sacre du Printemps The first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps took place in Paris 112 years ago this week on May 29, 1913. This groundbreaking ballet with its radical music and choreography by […]
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival II: Ravel, Farrenc, Duruflé, Schumann
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival (II) Mother Goose Ensemble 360. Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield, 18.05.2025 Ravel Mother Goose Suite (1908/11,arr. Farrington) Farrenc Sextet in C minor, Op. 40 (1851/2) Duruflé Prélude récitaif et variations Op. 3 (1928) […]
Hull Urban Opera gets up close & personal, Emma Wheeler & Anna Appleby bring together two musical worlds: Tête à Tête takes the opera festival to Newcastle
This year Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival not only returns for its 18th edition, but is expanding and there with performances in Newcastle and London. Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival is at Alphabetti Theatre in […]
Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Maxim Rysanov & Gautier Capuçon at Carnegie Hall – Shostakovich Sonatas
Shostakovich composed a single Sonata for each principal string instrument. ln the second of three Carnegie Hall concerts commemorating the 50th-anniversary of the composer’s death, Evgeny Kissin welcomed distinguished colleagues to perform them. The chronologically […]
A regional US orchestra raises $50 million. Just like that
The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina, a regional orchestra of no significant pedigree, has raised more than $50 million in a three-year campaign that should push it way up the industry rankings. The music […]
London orchestra is headless as CEO goes back to school
The London Mozart Players is seeking a new chief executive. The incumbent, Flynn Le Brocq, has found a job as director of admissions at a boarding school in Rutland. Le Brocq lasted four years at […]
Death of a major composer, 92
Wise Music Group has published news of the passing of the Danish composer Per Nørgård. The foremost musical Dane since Carl Nielsen, Nørgård composed eight symphonies, six operas, ten concertos, choral music, much chamber music […]
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