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Anything that rouses us to love can also provoke the opposite condition. Music is no exception. There are works we detest almost as much as many others we adore. I am interested in why we […]

The German luxury car-maker has rexcruited 40 local musicians to start an orchestra at its UK base in Preston, Lancashire. The city lost its last orchestra more than half a symphony ago. A Porsch rep […]

The Athens State Orchestra (Kratiki Orchistra Athinon) has confirmed Katerina Chatzinkolau as its concertmster, the country’s only female orchestra leader. Greek born, Katerina was previously 3rd Concertmaster at Duisburg Philharmonic/Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The post […]

The outstanding hornist David Alan Cooper posted last night: ‘I am so happy to share that tonight I was granted tenure as Associate Principal Horn of the LAPhil. ‘This week the @laphil performed in Barcelona, […]

A storm is still raging over the refusal of the Queen Elisabeth Competition winner, the Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, to shake the hand of one of the judges, the Russian violinist Vadim Repin. Udovychenko, 24, […]

For his last concert as music director at SWR in Stuttgart, the Putin conductor Teodor Currentzis chose Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Nothing controversial about that. Until a Russian tenor in the SWR Vokal-Ensemble, Alexander Yudenkov, […]

In 1973, Zubin Mehta plucked Matthew Garbutt, 21, from Los Angeles as principal tuba of the Israel Philharmonic. Garbutt held the position for three interesting years before returning to the US. He then settled in […]

Wagner wrote the opera for an orchestra 85, but 18 is all Edmonton, Canada, can summon in a chamber version by Jonathan Dove and the late Graham Vick, set in London’s present-day East End. The […]

The Dean of Winchester was supposed to be at Bury St Edmunds today to preach on the 30th anniversary service for the ordination of women. She failed to show up, send instead an inadequate video […]

Liebste Frau Alma I have a happy ending to report You may remember me, the player in a North German orchestra who has her ass grabbed by a member of the brass section. I had […]