December 25, 2024
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These we have lost in 2024

These we have lost in 2024

There have been some irreparable losses. Germany mourned its two foremost composers, the bust conductors Andrew Davis and Leif Segerstam stopped beating, the world’ foremost Jewish liturgist sang his last and we paused to mourn […]

Happy birthday MTT, 80 today

Happy birthday MTT, 80 today

The prolific international conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, diagnosed with a brain tumour more than three years ago, has battled through and is still undertaking engagements. In our Lebrecht Interview last summer, he flourished brilliant memories […]

Panic buttons at Cleveland

Panic buttons at Cleveland

The steady departure of cherished professors at the Cleveland Institute of Music has prompted this ‘unsettling’ holiday message from the Associate Dean for Academic Operations and Student Success. Stephen Rose is the latest in a […]

The 12 lives of Arnold Schoenberg

The 12 lives of Arnold Schoenberg

The Orchestre de Paris has uploaded an extraordinary concert on ’12 lives of Arnold Schoenberg’, breathing stage life into difficult music. Bertrand Bonello did the staging. Ariane Matiakh conducts. Watch here. The post The 12 […]

How many pianos is too many?

How many pianos is too many?

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at all. Not to […]