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The US violinist Hilary Hahn has pulled out of the BBC Proms next week with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, due to an ongoing injury’. She was due to play the Dvorak concerto. Isabelle Faust jumps […]

Cagney and Lacey  This is such an enjoyable duet – the two stars of Cagney and Lacey having fun with a song from the wonderful musical, City of Angels, for charity, at the STAGE gala in 1999. City of […]

The University of North Texas has been embroiled of late in accusations of antisemitism and censorship. Now it’s trying to be oh-so-nice to everyone. Here’s how it announces an appointment: MUSIC THEORY PROFESSOR TO SIT […]

A fund-raiser has been created on behalf of John Shin, a US-educated violinist who plays with the Utah Symphony, Ballet West and other ensembles. He has been seized by immigration police, leaving his family frightened […]

Musica Aeterna has announced the detah of its concertmaster, Inna Prokopyeva-Rice. She will be laid to rest on Friday in St Petersburg. The group, formed by Teodor Currentzis with Russian state funding, posted this message: […]

The Beethoven Orchestra Bonn has extended its general music director Dirk Kaftan to 2032, by which time he will have put in 15 years. That will see them covered for the Beethoven bicentenary in 2027. […]

The Malmö Symphony Orchestra has appointed the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Rainer Honeck to be its Honorary Guest Conductor. The ‘honorary’ renders the title almost meaningless. He won’t have to do much. Honeck, 64, has been […]

It has become known that the distinguished tenor Lawrence Brownlee will top the bill at the season-opening concert of Moscow’s state-run Zaryadye Hall on September 8. Brownlee, 53, is not troubled by the western cultural […]

The loss of Esa-Pekka Salonen early in the festival was a serious blow. Now Zubin Mehta has pulled out. He has ‘personal reasons’ for not conducting Beethoven’s 9th symphony. Here’s the official notice: Regrettably, guest […]

Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx (was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville and on television, radio, and the stage. He is considered one of America’s greatest comedians and he […]