The orchestra is off on its 25th US tour – 8 concerts, 2 programs, in 5 cities over 14 days. Kirill Petrenko conducts. The first tour was in 1955 with a new conductor – 26 […]
The conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, recovering presently from a bout of flu, as been using his downtime to create an online shrine to his phenomenal ancestors. “My grandparents became mega-stars,” says Tilson Thomas, “and found […]
The Russian pianist Pavel Kushner died today in a Birobidzhan detention center while awaiting trial for allegedly ‘inciting terrorism’. His offence was to read anti-Putin poems on a Youtube channel with five subscribers. Kushner went […]