From an Aigul Akhmetshina interview with Farah Nayeri in the NY Times: ‘I love to sometimes spontaneously sing in the London Underground, shock people. On a recent holiday in Dubai, I was on the beach […]
The Italian singer has added his son Matteo and the Welsh songbird Katherine Jenkins to a mass concert he is giving in London next month. Papa Bocelli said: ‘Hyde Park is the perfect place for […]
The conductor Gemma New has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s Birthday Honours. New, 37, said she was thrilled that the role of orchestral music in New […]
The house where Ferruccio Busoni lived from 1902-08, and where he composed his monumental piano concerto, was remembered with a memorial plaque yesterday in Berlin. Next month sees the centenary of the composer’s death. Igor […]
The Radiohead musician performed a concert in Tel Aviv last week with the Israeli artist Dudu Tassa and Arab musicians from other countries, prompting calls from the BDS movement for him to join its boycott. […]
The next general and artistic director of Cologne’s Philhaarmonie is to be Ewa Bogusz-Moore, presently in charge of Polish Radio’s National Symphony Orchestra. Ewa has also been joint CEO of the European Union Youth Orchestra. […]
The US period instrument specialist Robert Levin has an interesting theory for Mozart’s ceaseless output of new piano concertos. He tells Richard Fairman of the FT: ‘I imagine Mozart as being restlessly creative, with a […]
Slippediscers in the Netherlands have spotted that the Rotterdam Philharmonic has replaced Prokofiev’s popular openerin this week’s concerts with Lili Boulanger’s ‘D’un soir triste’. The programme is being played both at home and across the […]
Not Schubert’s best tune, perhaps, but one known to a significant proportion of the human race – with the exception of the bots employed by Youtube. The Google-owned video site has blocked a Samsung washing-maching […]
The state theatre in Schwerin, northeast Germany, is staging Paul Hindemith’s short opera Sancta, which few living people have ever seen. In order to hit the headlines, director Florentina Holzinger has inserted a scene of […]
