Works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were played at the first symphonic concert since the fall of the Assad regime. The conductor was the Syrian-Armenian Missak Baghboudarian. In the audience was health minister Maher al-Sharaa, brother of […]
When Jessica Lee resigned from the front desk of the Cleveland Orchestra last April, she said it was to teach fulltime at the Cleveland Institute of Music. But plans change. Last night, Jessica signed on […]
The ascendant American tenor joined Centre Stage Management in Berlin in August 2022. CSM is owned by Universal Music and convenient for Tetelman’s exclusive recording label, Deutsche Grammophon. But something didn’t click and the tenor […]
The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has been scrapped in an executive order, it was discovered overnight. Past members of the largely symbolic committee include Frank Sinatra and Yo Yo Ma. Present […]
Rattle’s next concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra will focus on Historically Informed Performance. The BRSO say: Large symphony orchestras have so far hardly dealt with baroque music played on historical instruments. Chief conductor […]
The BBC Scottish Symphony has just named Delyana Lazarova as principal guest conductor, from September. A former assistant to Mark Elder in Manchester, Delyana has just taken on the equivalent post in Utah. In Scotland […]
The orchestra is in mourning for it former principal clarinet, Peter Schmidl, who died unexpectedly at the weekend, aged 84. Schmidl, born in Olomouc (Cz), was the son and grandson of principal clarinettists of the […]
The orchestra has rolled out a three-week Biennale entitled Paradise Lost, allowing for a broader range of artists and repertoire. On debut are Marin Alsop and Dalia Stasevska. Here’s the press release: … A wide-ranging, […]
First the concert hall, then the opera chorus, then the Cardiff Singer of the World, now the national museum. Have the Welsh authorities lost all pride and shame? From BBC News this morning: Wales’ leading […]
Message from Amsterdam: Due to health reasons, Riccardo Chailly has had to withdraw from the concerts concluding the orchestra’s Bruckner cycle On 6, 7 and 9 February 2025, Manfred Honeck will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw […]
