Composer’s widow dies, 101
The Brazilian Academy of Music mourns the death of pianist Maria Josephina Mignone at the age of 101 years. She founded the “Francisco Mignone Cultural Center and was the premier interpreter of her huband’s works. […]
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Carnegie Hall goes LatinX next season
Press release for next season: Major programming highlights include Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds), a season-long festival celebrating the vibrant sounds, diverse traditions, and influence of Latin culture in the United States with performances spanning a […]
John Williams implores Utah to save concert hall
The Hollywood composer has issued a heartfelt plea to Salt Lake City to preserve Maurice Abravanel Hall from demolition: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I knew Maurice Abravanel, whom I admired greatly both as a person […]
Khatia borrows man’s shoes to reach her concert
The Georgian-French pianist was stuck in traffic, late for her July 14. Her stage shoes were useless for walking. Luckily, the kindness of a stranger saved the day. Right before entering the stage of […]
Leading English mezzo, RIP
The lovely mezzo-soprano Margaret Cable died on Tuesday of complications following surgery. She was 82. Married to the LSO tuba virtuoso John Fletcher (who died in 1987), Cable sang at festivals across Europe and the […]
Orchestra child is jailed for Just Stop Oil protests
One of the five climate protestors sentenced yesterday to four years in jail is Cressida Gethin, 22, from Hertfordshire. A music student at Cambridge University, she is the daughter of the cellist Nick Gethin, who […]
Orchestra CEO quits over ‘grievous’ misjudgements
Peter Biggs resigned as CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in April, officially ‘for a number of reasons, including health’. It now transpires that he admitted to his board chair ‘grievous errors of judgment’ […]
Czechs crack on with new concert hall
They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava. The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him. ‘A faraway country of which we […]
Bampton Classical Opera – Gazzaniga’s Alcina’s Island
Ludovico Ariosto’s long narrative poem Orlando furioso, from the early 16th century, proved to be highly influential not only as a masterpiece within the domain of literature, but also as a regular source for countless […]
The Waves: Louis Mander and Tamsin Treverton Jones’ operatic adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel to premiere in Oslo
Virginia Woolf: The Wavescover of the first edition, designed by Vanessa Bell Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel, The Waves, is regarded as her most experimental, consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters. It […]
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