Cornell University has an enlightening interview with its emeritus professor Neal Zaslaw, 85, the man behind the updating of Mozart and his works…. only 24 years behind deadline. When the contract for the new Köchel […]
Best known for his music for the German TV series “Schwarzwaldklinik”, the Austrian composer Hans Hammerschmid has died quietly at home. Originally a jazz pianist, he wrote and performed many songs with Hildegard Knef. He […]
We have learned belatedly of the death in October of the influential Swedish composer Jan W. Morthenson. He was 84. Morthenson developed three periods and styles – non-figurative music, meta-music and existentialist music. The first […]
Julia Albrecht has left KD Schmid for CCM, where she will be Director of Artists & Development. After more than two decades at Schmid, whe will not have overview of such artists as Hélène Grimaud, […]
A friend came back fro KOKO last night, enthusing about a gig by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his pianist sister, Isata. There were 800 young people crowding out the venue, having a really good time. […]
From our Finland correspondent: Sibelius wrote many songs including ‘Was it a Dream?’ and ‘The girl returned from meeting her lover’ for the soprano Ida Ekman who, on several accounts, he considered as the only […]
Cellist Josep Castanyer Alonso of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has issued a video of himself playing the Maria Carey hit in the style of six composers. Josep samples Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and […]
From Pianist magazine: … Steinway artist Lang Lang performed a selection of his favourite Disney songs during an intimate concert at Ladbroke Hall London. For more than a century, Steinway has captivated global audiences and […]
Marshall Brickman played banjo in Moscow and gave Bob Dylan his first roof in New York before he met Woody Allen, who changed his life. ‘: Woody Allen. ‘I would stand at the back of […]
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner of the CDU is not hardening his plan to cut 12 percent from the city’s art spend. He says: ‘I think we have to get away from the mentality of ‘we […]
