We understand that the entertaining Igudesman & Joo are about to announce their retirement from the stage at the end of next year. The violin-piano duo will have been performing together for two decades, which […]
The Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels shortly after midnight.The first prize is worth 25,000 Euros. Second and third places went to Americans – Joshua Brown (20k) and Elli Choi(17k). […]
By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s Click here to read Here’s a must-read article by Shannon Vittoria from the Met Museum’s Perspectives series about how women emerged as active creators of art […]
Death and the Kings Horseman – Digital Theatre Click here to subscribe or rent Written by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka and inspired by a true story, this stunning play celebrates a community striving to uphold its […]
Janet Cowperthwaite, who has managed the pioneering group for 43 years is stepping aside: ‘When I first met Kronos in 1981, I was a college student. I could not have imagined the amazing world that […]
Violinist Vishal Subramanian won the concerto competition in his senior school year and chose to play Sibelius – only for the fire alarm to be sounded. The school is Adlai E. Stevenson High School District […]
Christoph Eschenbach has cancelled his second week in Israel after falling unaccountably unwell. The Philharmonic are using his withdrawal to make a huge fuss of a young Israeli substitute. Rotem Nir, 26, is head of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week. … This is the best I have heard from Mäkelä on record. With a febrile soloist, he both anticipates and accommodates her whims, muting the orchestra or letting […]
The sinister BDS is calling for ‘creative, peaceful pressure’ on the prog-rock group Radiohead to ‘convincingly distance itself’ from Israel. The euphemisms here are insidious. Radiohead’s creative force Johnny Greenwood is married to an Israeli […]
Almost 230 compositions from 37 nationalities were submitted for Finland’s Uuno Klami Composition Competition. The highest number of entries came from Italy, Finland, Germany, Britain and Spain. The selected finalists are Yves Balmer, 45 (France/Switzerland): […]
