Can’t get a coffee without someone singing opera

Richard Williams was at her London debut in 1972: I sat with my friend Charlie Gillett and we were both overjoyed to discover that her band included Richard Tee on keyboards, the guitarist Eric Gale […]

We regret to inform you that Professor Shiozawa Yasuhiko (real name: Iiyoshi Yasuhiko, conductor, professor emeritus at Tokyo College of Music, and honorary conductor of the Tokyo Symphonic Orchestra) passed away on January 7, 2025, […]

The entrepreneur Mandle Cheung, 78, conducted the Toronto Symphony in Mahler’s second symphony this week. According the New York Times he paid less than $400,000 for the privilege. That’s dirt cheap. Norio Ohga, Sony’s CEO, […]