The Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber has been revealing his plans when he becomes Hamburg’s General Music Director in September. Among other ideas, Wellber has commissioned 10 living composers to insert their own ideas in […]
The venerable institution is shifting some of its activities to Docklands, whereis has been offered premises at peppercorn rent. press release: The Royal Academy of Music has today announced plans to create new teaching and […]
The capture of Yale University by woke jargon is exemplified in its latest weild appointment. This comes fro, would you believe, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music: New ISM long-term fellow, Katie Anania, is an […]
The contemporary-music quartet, which has been self-managed for musch of its history has placed its North American management with John Zion at MKI Artists in Burlington, Vermont. The post Biz news: Kronos get managed appeared […]
We’re trying to figure out how streaming differs from reacord buying and all we can say so far is that the global streaming chart bears little or no relation to physical product sales. Here’s this […]
Ronald Copes is stepping away from the JSQ after 28 years. His successor is Leonard Fu. He remains the only male. Fu’s early years in Germany were guided by studies with Lara Lev and Tanja […]
Last year in Salonika, the 16th International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition, the jury withheld first prize. Second went to a Russian, Sergey Akimov. This should have been the start of an international career but Akimov is […]
The Milwaukee Symophony has agreed a new pay deal with its musicians. It involves a 3% pay increase in 2025-26 and 2026-27, and a 3.5% increase in 2027-28. This is starting to look like benchmark […]
At a time of overwhelming anti-semitism, A Survivor from Warsaw comes as a timely reminder of what genocide really means. It’s from the NDR Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The post Arnold Schoenberg, just when […]
The Austrian opera festival, hit by a 30 percent subsidy cut, is looking for help wherever it might be lying exposed. Happily, this week the town of Bregenz declared a new nudist bathing area on […]
