Friends are sharing reports of the death yesterday of Marlos Nobre, internationally known composer and conductor who crossed between classical and Amazonian styles with felicitous ease and beauty. He was 85. Surprising that he isn’t […]
US violinist Mayumi Kanagawa (centre among the finalists) has won this year’s George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s 3rd concerto. Second was South Korea’s Hyeonjeong Lee, aged 13. Japan’s […]
Message received: Notre-Dame de Paris will reopen this weekend, having been restored in just five years after a raging fire destroyed its 800-year-old wooden roof frame and caused its iconic spire to collapse on April […]