Biz news: IMG owner goes to law against rival
Alexander Shustorovich, president of IMG Artists, has launched a bid to take over classical artists who are listed with WME. ‘If the artists at WME are up for grabs, that doesn’t mean we’ll get them […]
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London trombone gets into Karajan Academy
press release: Royal College of Music student, Robyn Anderson has won a place on the Berlin Philharmonic’s highly competitive Karajan Academy programme… This exceptional opportunity places Robyn among a select few musicians accepted each year, gaining experience in rehearsals and concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic as well as individual lesson […]
Death of Boston Symphony principal who was also a NASA scientist
The death has been announced, aged 94, of the venerable Burton Fine, principal viola for 29 years of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He started out as a research chemist with the space agency NASA. […]
This maestro likes to give massages, young students say
From the French magazine le canard enchainé, under the strapline ‘Metoo Classical music’: Le flûtiste et chef d’orchestre est connu dans le milieu de la musique baroque pour son insistance à vouloir masser les pieds […]
Peter Gelb: How I, I, I saved the Met
From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times: … I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new […]
Russian ballet star, 39, ‘died in balcony fall’
The press service of the Mariinsky Theater has announced the death of its principal dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. ‘This is a huge loss for the entire Mariinsky Theatre team. Our condolences to the artist’s family, loved […]
Dear Alma, Covid killed my playing
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, My 2nd and 3rd year of college was during Covid. I play a wind instrument. It was very tough to improve during those years, and even after that I […]
At ENO, are there crumpets still for tea?
Alastain Macaulay reviews Donizetti’s time-shifted Elixir of Love at English National Opera: Harry Fehr’s English National Opera adorable production of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” (“L’Elisir d’Amore”, 1832) doesn’t just translate this idyllic rural comedy […]
This record wins 5 stars for initiative
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]
Ruth Leon’s Pocket Theatre Review: Dr Strangelove – Noel Coward Theatre
In 1964, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times called Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr Strangelove, “the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across”. The almost slavishly admiring stage production currently at the Noel Coward Theatre lives […]
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