Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]
We have learned belatedly of the death in October of the influential Swedish composer Jan W. Morthenson. He was 84. Morthenson developed three periods and styles – non-figurative music, meta-music and existentialist music. The first […]
It is reported that the International Pride Orchestra of San Francisco has received a cancellation note from the Kennedy Center. They were to have performed on June 4 in the Center’s World Pride festival. The […]