Gustav Holst (1874-1934): A Musical Visionary Who Went to the Planets and Beyond ““Music, being identical with heaven, isn’t a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It’s a condition of eternity.” — Gustav […]
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) – Composer of the Beloved Carnival of the Animals and Much More Edited by Barry Lenson from Content Generated by the Claude AI app When music lovers hear the name of the […]
America’s oldest dance festival has just been called off after a staffer was killed last week while moving stage gear. The victim was named as production manager Kat Sirico. Among the events cancelled are performances […]
The fabled pianist, 84, has pulled out of the Lucerne Festival on August 28 and the Enescu Festival in Romania three days later. She will be replaced in both events by the Korean, Seong-Jin Cho. Martha’s […]
A vivid snatch of a French composer imagining he’s a chaffinch. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Plus94 Records (@plus94_records) The post Watch composer Olivier Messiaen make his favoirute bird […]
Nicky Spence, my guest on the Lebrecht Interview last weekend, has launched a scheme to benefit students from deprived backgrounds similar to his own. Message from the Guildhall: We’re delighted to announce the Nicky Spence […]
Chicago’s former Opera Theater music director Lidiya Yankovskaya is fed up with the US and moving her family to London. She says: “I want to be sure that my children can grow up feeling like […]
On today’s Telegraph op-ed page I write about the harm inflicted by Covent Garden’s CEO Alex Beard on those seeking to end the war in Gaza. Among other things, I argue: …Beard’s sanction on Israeli […]
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Richard Kessler, Executive Dean of the College of Performing Arts and Dean of Mannes since 2011, has been promoted to Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the New School. The New School […]
