This is interesting. When the Bundesjugendorchestertours the UK in January it will be looking for ways to re-engage with British musicians who suffered the loss of the Erasmus programme after Brexit. Read this: The Bundesjugendorchester […]
The 2025 Grawemeyer music composition award, worth US$100,000, has gone to a Londoner, Christian Mason, for his work Invisible Threads. The piece, lasting 70 minutes, employs ‘a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encourages […]
The maestro has given the first of his pre-New Year’s Day Vienna concert interviews. Sample quote on woke and cancel culture: ‘This is something I absolutely reject. Nothing must be erased, on the contrary, all […]
Message received: On 1 May 2025, Axel Hiller will succeed Florian Wiegand as the director of the Concert and Media department. “It is a great joy for me to join Markus Hinterhäuser in determining the […]
Message from the artistic director of the Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of China: On Nov. 29, Prof. Dr. Martin Fischer-Dieskau collaborated with the WFSC for a special commemorative concert, conducting the Harbin Symphony Orchestra. The special […]
The Yale Symphony Orchestra is looking for a music director after William Boughton ends his five-year stint in April. Boughton, 75, previously led the New Haven Symphony for a decade. Anyone applying to Yale will […]
WIN: Matias Tarnopolsky played hardball in compensation negotiations when the NY Phil came after him in the summer. That’s why it has taken four months to make the appointment. He got what he wanted, or […]
The Philadelphia Orchestra are putting a brave face on the almost-instant departure of CEO Matias Tarnopolsky to head up the New York Philharmonic. Tarnopolsky leaves in less than a month, no time at all to […]
The orchestra board has just announced that Matías Tarnopolsky will become the New York Philharmonic’s President and CEO, effective January 1, 2025. As foretold in slippedisc.com. The imperative was to find an executive whoi gets […]
Cornell University has an enlightening interview with its emeritus professor Neal Zaslaw, 85, the man behind the updating of Mozart and his works…. only 24 years behind deadline. When the contract for the new Köchel […]
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