The Los Angeles Master Chorale has announced the death of co-founder Marshall Rutter. Artistic director Grant Gershon said: ‘Marshall Rutter was the quiet force behind a remarkable blossoming of choral music in America. As one […]
The US pianist has gone back to her first agent, Tania Dorn, now operating a successful boutique. The drift from big-barn agency to small continues. It seems Dinnerstein has also dropped her exclusivity with ailing […]
Nice to see a disc celebrating Eudice Shapiro. A pupil of the great Efrem Zimbalist, long-lived Shapiro (1914-2007) shines on this release. She was known as an orchestral and quartet leader, and here we hear […]
From our special correspondent in Tel Aviv, Dan Yakir: The Finish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski conducted six subscription concerts during his Israel Philharmonic debut. After a dazzling performance of Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the […]
Audra Macdonald One of the shows I most wanted to see in New York was the new production of Gypsy starring the wonderful Audra Macdonald. Sadly, the tickets prices are so outrageous – a good […]
Australian musicians are mourning the death of the Melbourne pianist, harpsichordist and teacher Dean Sky-Lucas. He was apparently in hospital, recovering from surgery, when an advanced cancer was discovered. The Melbourne conductor Benjamin Northey writes: […]
The musos turned out in force for Radio 3’s final In Tune with Sean Rafferty. A couple of Dames and some heroes of the bow and string. See how many you can name. The […]
John Eliot Gardiner’s Springhead Constellation – his successor to the Monteverdi orchestras – was supposed to make its debut tonight at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. But their flight was delayed by bad weather at London’s Heathrow airport, […]
Musicians of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra called off last night’s concert after four players were injured when a car ran into a peaceful vigil for victims of a railway disaster. Some musicians are blaming both […]
Eight and a half years ago, Valery Gergiev conducted an all-male concert in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra to celebrate its reconquest by Putin forces on behalf of the chemical mass-murderer Bashir al-Assad. This […]
