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From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, There’s a new player in our viola section and she wears a kind of hijab – a black headscarf that also covers her shoulders. For what I can […]

The exceptional soprano Louise Alder has given up on big management at AskonasHolt. She signed this morning with Maria Mot’s boutique (est. 2020), where she joins Gerald Finley, Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Huw Montague […]

ENO, which is shedding its orchestra in the move away from London, is advertising for an oerchestra manager. Should be an interesting job. The English National Opera (ENO) is inviting applications for the role of […]

The Council and Senate of the Weimar University of Music decided last night to close the Institute for Early Music. It’s not just Oxford and Cambridge that have devalued music studies. Weimar is reallocating its […]

Delighted to see a piece of original research by conductor-scholar (and exNYT critic) Will Crutchfield published in this weekend’s NY Times. Historians try to be precise, so it is awkward to admit that I can’t […]

The emissaries named on Monday by the State Department are  Herbie Hancock, Denyce Graves, Chuck D, Lainey Wilson, Justin Tranter, Teddy Swims, Armani White, Jellyroll, Breland, Kane Brown and Grace Bowers. Apparently, ‘In their work, […]

The Munich Philharmonic, which recently installed Lahav Shani as chief conductor, also has a new CEO. Paul Müller is departing after 16 years. His successor next year will be Florian Wiegand, presently director of concerts […]

The versatile German mezzo-soprano is midway through her second career as an opera and festival director. She has engagements until 2029 and has not completely given up thought of singing again, she says. The Lebrecht […]

Marlon Brando’s 10 Best Films  This week marks 20 years since the death of  Marlon Brando. This American stage and film actor and director was one of the most important actors of the 20th century, […]

The chief executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Emma  Stenning, has appointed a Community Board of local leaders and activists. The Board, in her words, is A group designed to build connections with […]