Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe and the US drew a tsunami of responses, mostly defending the current administrative practice of seeking to balance – that is, manipulate – new entrants to orchestra […]
Walking with Dinosaurs – Diplodocus-and-Stegosaurus – SOURCE BBC More than two decades since the first episode of the iconic series, the award-winning soundtrack of Walking With Dinosaurs has been released to celebrate the 25th anniversary […]
From Sara Schoenbeck, a teacher at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music: Someone stole my constant companion from me in Brooklyn today (ed. Sunday). They took my soulful, beautiful and irreplaceable Heckel Bassoon, serial #9703. Please […]
Yuval Buyum, 21, was a dedicated pianist who played classical music, jazz and his own compositions. He was murdered in cold blood at noon, a year ago today, in Kfar Aza by armed Hamas invaders. […]
The town of Bayreuth is planning a Nazi documentation centre. It will be housed in the former mansion of the British antisemitic polemicist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a significant influence on Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. […]
Portuguese mezzo Cláudia Ribas (pictured) has won the 57th International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Second was UK mezzo Annabel Kennedy. Min Gyu Song from South Korea is the winner of the 13th edition […]
The death of the iconic French actor Michel Blanc, aged 72, is being mourned in the highest corridors of power. President Macron said: ‘He made us cry with laughter, and moved us to tears.’ Prime […]
Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert – English Touring Opera Do not take my story for a fairytale, Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert; Abigail Kelly, Amy J Payne, Matthew McKinney, Mark Nathan, Aoife Miskelly, Flor McIntosh, William Morgan, […]
I Fagiolini during recording sessions for the Benevoli project From Venice (to Rome) with Love – Benevoli: Missa Benevola, Monteverdi motets, Carissimi: Jephte; I Fagiolini, the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Lyons Mouth, Robert Hollingworth; Church […]
A televised selection process that raised concerns about the competence of two judges has yielded an unremarkable pack of six semis: English/ Swedish violinist Maya Broman Crawford-Phillips (17), currently studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School […]
