BBC diversity hiring now includes the dead

They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava. The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him. ‘A faraway country of which we […]

The Stuttgart Philharmonic has let it be known that Dan Ettinger, its general music director since 2015, has left his job ‘for personal reasons’. No further comment is being made. Ettinger, 53, a former Barenboim […]

Buon compleanno to the formidable Italian maestro, who turns 84 today. He is the doyen of his guild and he will know better than most that the one to beat is Arturo Toscanini, who retired […]