BBC diversity hiring now includes the dead

Berklee College of Music has fired trumpeter Nicholas Payton, chair of the school’s Brass Department,over a string of anti-semitic comments in his social media. Among other libels he accused Jews of oppressing black people. Payton […]

Ha Young Jung (pic), principal bass at the New Jersey Symphony, is taking up the same position in Baltimore. Abigail Kent is the new principal harp. Andrew Eng, recently with the National Symphony in DC, […]

Fiona Maddocks has a ball in The Observer, surveying a weekend in the country. Such a joy to read a music critic who selects adverbs with surgical precision and eschews adverbs like the proverbial pestilence: […]