Message received: A “secret” concert in Moscow was held on Thursday in memory of Pavel Kushnir, a musician who died in July 2024 in a pretrial detention center in Birobidzhan. He was under arrest for […]
The technical reasons that caused Bavarian Radio to call off a Herbert Blomstedt concert at the Herkulessal have turned out to be almost too trivial to be believed. Apparently, an alarm light was flashing and […]
Last-minute notice from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: ! CONCERT CANCEL 11TH January 2025 !! Due to short-term and irreparable technical problems in the residence, today’s concert with Herbert Blomstedt and the BRSO has to […]
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre has announced the death of Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, two days after her 60th birthday. She had been battling cancer. The theatre lamented: The leading actress of the Art Theatre, who played […]
Larry Schoenberg, the composer’s son, has lost his Pacific Palisades home in the Los Angeles firestorm – in addition to the family’s publishing business, Belmont Music. Larry, who is 83, is a retired high school […]
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will personally oversee the reconstruction of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, which has been going on for 12 years without visible progress. ‘I will come and have a […]
The big day is next Sunday. He tells Fiona Maddocks: ‘It’s a total cliche to say music keeps you young. I still feel like a teenager, though my knees may have a different opinion. I […]
Charli Eglington, who is 25 tomorrow, has composed a musical on the after-life of Mozart – how his sister Nannerl and his widow Constanze buried their personal jelousies to craft a posthumous image that protected […]
We have been notified of the death in Mannheim of the ex-Juilliard pianist and Mannheim University teacher, Scott Faigen. Scott was 69. From his Pittsburgh obit: For six years, Scott was a répétiteur at the […]
Over the Rainbow Until my friend Julian brought him to my attention I hadn’t realised that Dave Lee, a legendary pianist, composer, and musical director was still with us. But he is. At 98 he […]
