Faculty at Ruce University’s Shepherd School of Music have been informed by the Dean that horn professor Biill VerMeulen has been retired, ‘effective immediately’. In a message to media the school says: ‘Rice is aware […]
We have been notified of the death, on April 29 in Jerusalem, of the composer Paul Schoenefeld, who melded traditional Ashkenazi-Jewish music with western orchestral settings. Paul was 77. Before migrating to Israel, he was […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, WTF? Making news in just the last week. Enough is enough. We have been patient, working hard against a wall of male privilege, getting passed over for jobs, […]
The Académie des Beaux-Arts has announced the death of Hugues Gall, director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for 15 years and then of the Opéra de Paris until 2004. Hugues, who was 84, was […]
Rising concern about Arts Cancel England (ACE) has prompted librarians at the House of Lords to prepare a really useful couple of charts on how opera has been centrally funded over the past eight years. […]
The composer Richard M Sherman, who co-wrote wrote songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has died in Beverly Hills, aged 95. All his songs were written with his brother […]
The suppurating discontent at one of England’s finest houses of worship burst into full flood in today’s Mail on Sunday. Sample: Winchester Cathedral is reeling from the controversy that has seen key figures leave, with […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Digital Theatre Click here to subscribe or rent The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play which is set in his own time with characters who would have […]
The British actor narrates a cosmic new work by Sibelius descendant Lauri Porra. The composer’s wife conducts. You may well have heard it here first. The post Life, the universe and … Stephen Fry appeared […]
Press release: Over the past four years (2020-2024), German conductor and organist Hansjörg Albrecht has recorded Bruckner’s complete symphonic oeuvre as a transcription for organ for the first time worldwide. This colossal project, entitled Anton […]
