Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

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 […]

This week’s picture portfolio from the Boston Symphony Orchestra of music director Andris Nelsons show a leader painfully reduced in size. Formerly substantial, the Latvian is now a fraction of his former self. The transformation […]

The Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarov a, former assistant to Mark Elder in Manchester, has been named principal guest conductor in Utah from mid-2025. She will work with newly appointed music director Markus Poschner. ‘Delyana’s electric […]