Message from the South African cellist Peter Martens, a member of the Capetown Philharmonic: Unfortunately, not everyone has the money to buy a seat for their cello even though it may be valuable. Mine is […]
John Aylward’s opera film “Oblivion” has won the Best Musical Film award at Cannes World Film Festival. Aylward, a Boston composer and librettist, had intended his work for the live stage. But Covid intervened and […]
A reaction to the Trump awards from the composer and pianist David Chesky: Once upon a time—say, in 1978—the Kennedy Center Honors were a kind of secular cathedral service for American genius. Marian Anderson, Fred […]
The orchestra is slurping it up. From today’s corp-speak press release: The Magnum Ice Cream Company, formerly known as Unilever Ice Cream, is proud to become a global partner of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, joining […]
From WBEZ Chicago: “It’s pretty unrecognizable,” said Seth Boustead of Access Contemporary Music. “The door dings when you walk in, like a 7-Eleven — we left that.” This is so exciting. Read on here. For […]
From the great man’s maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1993, newly uploaded on Youtube. ‘Music is the one art,’ he says, ‘that can create order out of chaos.’ The post […]
From a new essay in the Music Quarterly by Joseph N. Straus of the City University of New York. I find the article objectionable from the opening sentence on. Almost every assertion can be challenged, […]
The US president has agreed to host the 2025 Kennedy Center honors. Usually there is one token classical or opera recipient – Martha Argerich, Renee Fleming or the like. Not this year. The 2025 […]
We have received concerns from Met insiders that the latest rounds of auditions have yielded a less diverse chorus membership. Here’s what the chorus is being told in an internal memo: The post Has the […]
The British Choral Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Burton, will leave his position directly after the Tanglewood Fesival. Burton, 51, is also conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He has been in both […]
