Slipped Disc

Principal viola of the Israel Philharmonic for the past 40 years, Miriam Hartman Beazley was serenaded out this week in traditional fashion, with one odd note. She was allowed to take away the only chair […]

Following upon the removal of Zachary Woolfe as chief critic, the jittery paper has reassigned itsnews corespondent for classical and dance, Javier Hernández, to … Tokyo, where he will be bureau chief. Hernández served a […]

A House of Representative subcommittee voted last night to name the Kennedy Center for the performing arts after Melania Trump, wife of the sitting president. ‘This designation is an excellent way to recognize her support […]

Founder of the Opera Camerata of Washington, Micaele Sparacino was an instigator of operatic activity across the US. According to a colleague, he was found by a friend who went by for a wellness check […]

The city of Bologna has cancelled an August 5 concert by Alexander Romanovsky, a pianist who, according to the Liberal Democratic Party of Bologna, ‘played on the rubble of the theatre in Mariupol, a city […]

We have been notified of the death yesterday of David Rendall, a dominant figure at Covent Garden from the late 1970s. Having sung solo in a Herbert von Karajan Bruckner Te Deum, he went on […]

The populist tenor Russell Watson has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Greater Manchester ‘in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the arts’. Watson, 59, has survived two brain tumours. […]

From a press release: Chamber Music America Responds to NEA Funding Rescissions with New Grant Program. Together with the Sewell Family Foundation, CMA will provide $75,000 to organizations and ensembles that have lost federal funding. […]

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has named Henry Shapard as co-principal cellist. Shapard, 26, is presently principal of the Vancouver Symphony and professor of cello at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Also joining the cellos is […]

The parents of Alec Van Khajadourian, from Los Angeles, are claiming he is the youngest person ever to play at Carnegie. He played two short pieces in the NY Classical Debut Awards Gala Concert on […]