The highly accomplished Polish conductor Tadeusz Strugała turns 90 this week. Never a limelight seeker, he was music director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and of the Turkish presidential orchestra. But his closest involvements were […]
The serene and much-recorded Polish concert and opera singer Jadwiga Rappé died this weekend. She performed in most major venues and appeared on 56 recordings, including Wagner with Bernard Haitink and works of Lutoslawski and […]
By Barry Lenson The Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is most admired for his incredibly skillful, masterfully orchestrated tone poems The Birds, The Pines of Rome, and The Fountains of Rome. These charming works have […]