Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony have announced the appointment of Joshua Elmore as Principal Bassoon. He is apparently the orchestra’s first black principal player in 50 years. The SF Symphony have also […]
Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten The two most significant composers of their generation – Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland – both died this week in, respectively, 1976 and 1990. (So did Cicero but he died […]
Solomon’s Knot and Jonathan Sells join forces with Les Passions de l’Âme (The Passions of the Soul)) for this celebration of late Telmann sacred music, Ton Koopman waxed lyrical to me once about Telemann’s Donnerode, […]