The Central Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra has announced the death of principal cello and programme coordinator Dr Lauri Pulakka after a long illness. Lauri taught cello, baroque cello, viola da gamba and music history at the […]
The transitioning City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is advertising for a part-time wellbeing executive, attending one and a half working days a month. It is not clear whose wellbeing is in need of attention. Presumably […]
Choral evensong at 3.30pm today will be the final Winchester service led by director of music Andrew Lumsden. A full house is expected with many singers and music lovers past and present driving in from […]
Heads of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where teachers have voted no-confidence in the leadership, are doing well out of the crisis. President Paul Hogle (pictured) added $180,000 to his pay packet, which now tops […]
Interlochen Arts Academy informs us: Matthew Straw is jumping in as a last minute replacement for Christian Reif with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen on Sunday evening. Matthew is the youngest conductor to […]
The German dramatic mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse died yesterday,, aged 87. Hesse, a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1995, sang most summers in Bayrteuth or Salzburg. She made a noted Covent Garden […]
The French Sovrintendente of Teatro alla Scala, ousted by a xenophobic new law, has signed on for his next position. Dominique Meyer, 69, is required to give up in Milan on turning 70 next year. […]
The recent Göttedämmung at the Royal Festival Hall was due to feature Brindley Sherratt as Hagen. It was not to be (although there was a luxury stand-in); in compensation, we have this remarkable disc for […]
The Voice of the Turtle – Jermyn Street Theatre This week’s welcome discovery is a play with a happy ending. Maybe I shouldn’t have told you that. Maybe I just should have said that John van […]
The Brompton Quartet, Aníbal Vidal & Ignacio LusardiMonteverde at recording session for Cuerdas y Rugidos Chilean composer Aníbal Vidal released his album, Cuerdas y Rugidos (Strings and Roars), on the Sello Modular label last month. […]
