Press release for next season: Major programming highlights include Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds), a season-long festival celebrating the vibrant sounds, diverse traditions, and influence of Latin culture in the United States with performances spanning a […]
The Hollywood composer has issued a heartfelt plea to Salt Lake City to preserve Maurice Abravanel Hall from demolition: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I knew Maurice Abravanel, whom I admired greatly both as a person […]
The Georgian-French pianist was stuck in traffic, late for her July 14. Her stage shoes were useless for walking. Luckily, the kindness of a stranger saved the day. Right before entering the stage of […]
The lovely mezzo-soprano Margaret Cable died on Tuesday of complications following surgery. She was 82. Married to the LSO tuba virtuoso John Fletcher (who died in 1987), Cable sang at festivals across Europe and the […]
One of the five climate protestors sentenced yesterday to four years in jail is Cressida Gethin, 22, from Hertfordshire. A music student at Cambridge University, she is the daughter of the cellist Nick Gethin, who […]
Peter Biggs resigned as CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in April, officially ‘for a number of reasons, including health’. It now transpires that he admitted to his board chair ‘grievous errors of judgment’ […]
They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava. The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him. ‘A faraway country of which we […]
The Kiss holds a unique place in Smetana’s oeuvre; it was the first operatic work he composed after the great personal tragedy of completely losing his hearing. Eliška Krásnohorská adapted a short story by Czech […]
Rubens – The Judgement of Paris – National Gallery Behind the Scenes at the National Gallery Britta New shows how science and new technology improve our understanding of conservation changes that have been made to […]
Dear Alma, A member of my chamber ensemble is always late for rehearsals, barely makes our flights, and the other week we had to delay our start time for a concert because they misread the […]
