Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the Orchestre de […]
From an interview with the German-based US director Lydia Steier: The hall (in the Wartburg) is based on the architecture of Albert Speer. We set the second act in 1938, as a quote from the […]
Someone explain this to me. The Chicago Symphony has announced a Eurtope tour with Jaap Van Zweden, former music director of the NY Philharmonic. He was not a success in NY. Why are Chicago running […]