Folks have lately pointed out the merits of Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, which ‘presents world-class music for people of modest incomes in New York City’ (or so it says on the wrapper). The series, founded in […]
Christian Thielemann has told La Scala he has to undergo surgery next month and cannot conduct Das Rheingold, which opens on October 28. Simone Young and Alexander Soddy will step in. Since he misses the […]
Starting with the 1982 best-seller A Feather on the Breath of God, the south London boutique label is bringing back some of its iconic hits on long-playing vinyl, it was rolled out today. Along with […]
The death is being shared of Peabody graduate Eric Maul, a flutist well known among Baltimore musicians and in his adopted city, Boston. No cause of death has yet been made public. Social media are […]
The Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer turned 75 this week. By way of a birthday present, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker renewed his contract as chief conductor by five more years, to 2023. Adam is the elder brother […]
The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie has just released artist details: Against Silence. Against Anti-Semitism Mon, 16 September 2024, 20:00, Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall Solidarity concert featuring Igor Levit (piano), Malakoff Kowalski (piano), Johanna Summer (piano), Alan Gilbert (violin), […]
The mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti was seen by millions singing in the rain a few weeks ago at the opening of the Paris Olympics. Now she is getting personal about her prolonged struggle with cancer. I […]
Our agony aunt has freelanced in the Berlin Phil and knows the situation from the inside. Dear Alma, I am a young musician trying to get a foothold on a career. I am still in […]
Charles Haupt was barely shaving when the San Antonio Symphony signed him as concertmaster back in the day. Lukas Foss swooped in 1966 to bring him to the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he served for 37 […]
She was half-French, half-Italian, spoke six languages and sang in twice as many. The mega-hits of Caterina Valente, who has died in Switzerland at 93, came mostly in the 1950s. She made her breakthrough in […]
