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Apparently, none of its present team has been called in for promotion. The job was listed last night. So far, only five people have clicked on it.   The mission of The New York Times […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma Urgent request. My deputy concertmaster is having sex with this season’s assistant conductor. She is 25, no commitments, on a learning curve with a man twenty years older […]

The death is reported in Germany of the Japanese conductor Hiroaki Masuda. The post Japanese conductor, 73 appeared first on Slippedisc.

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Viktor Kalabis is not easy to classify. His music owes something to Janacek and Martinu but without the insistent rhythms or the indelible melodies. He is a discreet […]

Russian media are reporting that the virtuoso violinist Asya Sorshneva has been placed under house arrest in the town of Vladimir. She has been charged with ‘financing extremist activities’ after making several donations to the […]

A professor at the University of Manitoba, Oleg Pokhanovski, has been charged in Winnipeg with sexual assault on a teenaged private pupil. The alleged incidents took place between 2007 and 2010. Pokhanovski, 55, reported voluntarily […]

Here’s a tour of the new exhibition at the Met, Arts of the Ancient Americas. These artworks reveal histories of the exchange of materials and ideas across vast distances and millennia and provide a deeper […]

Hot vid from last week at the Verbier Festival:   The post Martha and the brothers appeared first on Slippedisc.

Our recent guest on the BBC Lebrecht Interview has been strutting her stuff with the Czech Philharmonic: The post Keeping up with Alisa appeared first on Slippedisc.