It was the black year of 1968 when conductor Agnieszka Duczmal founded the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. On the streets, students and workers went on strike and the antisemitic Communist government blamed the Jews, forcing thousands […]
The Israel Philharmonic has pushed back its season-opening concert to November 4, due to artist cancellations and other considerations. Maxim Vengerov can’t make the date and will be replaced in the Mendelssohn concerto by Mark […]
The much-recorded Valerie Tryon passed 90 last month without fuss. She has lived in Canada since 1976 and is being celebrated this week at a concert at McMaster University. Details here. The post An English […]
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This seems really worthwhile: Applications are open for the 2025 SWAP’ra Retreat at Snape Maltings, in partnership with Britten Pears Arts. The SWAP’ra Retreat is a fully-funded, 5-day residential course providing intensive support, training, and […]
Letter from Professor Ira Sohn in this weekend’s Financial Times: Regarding Tim Harford’s disquisition on the “Baumol effect” and his observation that “it still takes four musicians between 25 and 30 minutes” to play a […]
Past students are sharing their sadness at the death of John Barstow, former head of keyboard at the Royal College of Music. He used to pay out of his own pocket for students to hear […]
Page from the edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497 Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon, Jean-Philippe Rameau:Pygmalion; Anna Dennis, Rachel Redmond, Katie Bray, Thomas Walker , Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; BarbicanReviewed by […]
Title page of the “Bassus Generalis” for one of the partbooks in which the Vespers were published in 1610 Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610; Solomon’s Knot; Wigmore HallReviewed 12 October 2024 A chance to hear Monteverdi’s […]
The influential California viola player Kay Pech has died, aged 87. Kay was principal violist of the Disneyland Orchestra for 43 years. As a violinist, she was concertmaster of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra in […]
