The Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media has signed a cheque for a the new Richard Wagner Academy at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Jan Vogler’s festival has become the space-lab for trying out Wagner operas in […]
Leave aside for a moment the completeness of Igor Levit’s musicianship and consider the stamina and sheer physicality of a recital played without an interval – which, given his programme, would have been welcome – […]
I attended the former church last night for a concert by the ‘radical’ Manchester Collective, a string quartet playing works by contemporary British composers. Nothing to frighten the horses, though I was much taken with […]
Angela Hewitt’s recital brought together music variously conceived to entertain a royal patron, serve as a teaching manual, and consolidate youthful works which demonstrated a formidable keyboard technique. At some forty minutes Brahms’s Third Piano […]
No sooner had the musicians authorised a pay strike than the management of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC took to social media to post a series of aggressive claims – which, musicians tell us, […]
The Joachim violin competition in Hanover has chosen its finalists. They are: Angela Chan, 27, Hong Kong/China, Kyumin Park, 27, South Korea, Jacques Forestier, 19, Canada. Results on Saturday night. The post Another Canadian winner? […]
From a Barrons interview with Weston Sprott, dean and director of the Preparatory Division at the Juilliard School, and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. I balance full-time teaching at Juilliard and full-time performing with […]
Austrian media are circulating a picture of the Russian soprano in a wedding dress, holding an assault weapon, taken from her instagram account. The picture has been traced to Berlin Staatsoper rehearsals for an upcoming […]
From our roving reviewer, Susan Hall: The North American premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera, The Listeners, took place at Opera Philadelphia on September 25. Mazzoli is a hometown hero. Her smashing opera based on the […]
Gregory Hines Tribute to Gene Kelly This is one of my favourite dance sequences. It’s from the 1982 Kennedy Center Honors and this is my old friend the late Gregory Hines paying tribute to Gene Kelly. […]
