In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “You try lots of things,” […]
You might think that having Esa-Pekka Salonen quitting as music director would have mitigated the SFSO’s appetite for public conflict. Not a bit of it. Last week the musicians distributed leaflets before a concert honouring […]
The Metropolitan Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists reached a very short-term pay deal before close of business on Friday. It amounts to around a five percent pay increase for AGMA members, who […]