The Greek city is remembering Yiannis Boutaris, winemaker and clean-handed politician, who died yesterday at the age of 82. As mayor of Salonika from 2011 to 2019, Boutaris pledged to build the city’s first memorial […]
Washington National Opera and the National Symphony just announced next season’s plans under new management. WNO is putting on Robert Ward’s opera of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a reconfoguration of the 1650s Salem witch-hunt as […]
From the Times obituary of the sadly missed Laura Samuel: … During her first weeks studying violin at the Royal College of Music with Itzhak Rashkovsky she met the Romanian violinist Corina Belcea. Together they […]