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The Mellon Foundation has launched a $35 million initiative for the preservation of jazz and its legacies. Among the bequests, we read, the fellowship will support 50 seasoned jazz artists aged 62 and older. Each […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Many composers have tried to improve on Schubert. Mahler made a string-orchestra version of the Death and the Maiden string quartet, Joseph Joachim orchestrated a four-hand piano sonata, […]

The tenor is a fan of his hometown football club. They have commissioned a new song for the club’s 125th anniversary and he’s recorded it with crowd and orchestra. Harry Kane will never get his […]

Message received: On April 20, 2025, acclaimed Black, Queer conductor Cailin Marcel Manson will take the podium at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage to lead the New England Symphonic Ensemble in the Carnegie Hall premiere […]

The proto-modernist Frederik van Rossum died this week leaving a body of mostly piano works and a bevy of publishers whom he sacked. His In memoriam Glenn Gould for piano, opus 43 of 1984 deserves […]

This week’s Alastair Macaulay Review is a triple-header of current operas. Two should have been bigger and better. The third was embarrasingly  ludicrous. Read on: 1: Mary Queen of Scots – English National Opera, February […]

The floundering Cleveland Institute of Music has hired Tito Munoz to stand in for two years while it reorganises orchestral teaching. They put a bold face on it in a puffy announcement: Roll out the […]

The conductor is quoted in the Times this morning: ‘The government is in such a hurry to commoditise music on behalf of the AI companies they have failed to account for the thousands of hours […]

 Henry James died 109 years ago this week on 28 February 1916. He was an American-British author, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to […]