The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has been scrapped in an executive order, it was discovered overnight. Past members of the largely symbolic committee include Frank Sinatra and Yo Yo Ma. Present […]
Rattle’s next concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra will focus on Historically Informed Performance. The BRSO say: Large symphony orchestras have so far hardly dealt with baroque music played on historical instruments. Chief conductor […]
The BBC Scottish Symphony has just named Delyana Lazarova as principal guest conductor, from September. A former assistant to Mark Elder in Manchester, Delyana has just taken on the equivalent post in Utah. In Scotland […]
By Barry Lenson Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at 13, where he studied composition with Alexander Glazunov. Shostakovich spent his life […]
The orchestra is in mourning for it former principal clarinet, Peter Schmidl, who died unexpectedly at the weekend, aged 84. Schmidl, born in Olomouc (Cz), was the son and grandson of principal clarinettists of the […]
The orchestra has rolled out a three-week Biennale entitled Paradise Lost, allowing for a broader range of artists and repertoire. On debut are Marin Alsop and Dalia Stasevska. Here’s the press release: … A wide-ranging, […]
First the concert hall, then the opera chorus, then the Cardiff Singer of the World, now the national museum. Have the Welsh authorities lost all pride and shame? From BBC News this morning: Wales’ leading […]
Message from Amsterdam: Due to health reasons, Riccardo Chailly has had to withdraw from the concerts concluding the orchestra’s Bruckner cycle On 6, 7 and 9 February 2025, Manfred Honeck will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw […]
The Limelight 2024 Australian Artist of the Year was announced last night. Chosen by a panel of critics, Australia’s leading artist of 2024 turns out to be the British pianist Jayson Gillham. Gillham was fired […]
Local reviewer Mark Morris has been denied access to Edmonton Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle, reimagined by Britain’s Theatre of Sound. He writes: Edmonton Opera’s presentation of Bluebeard’s Castle opens tonight (February 1), and runs through February […]
