Wolves honour Elgar’s Dorabella
The Wolverhampton Society has affixed a blue plaque to the house where one of the friends mentioned in Enigma Variations lived. Known to Elgar as Dorabella, Dora lived with her father the Rev Alfred Penny, […]
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Edinburgh hires baby deps
The Edinburgh International Festival has appointed two new heads of artistic management and music programming. Paul Sharp and Nick Zekulin will cover for director Nicola Benedetti, who is on maternity leave. Zekulin (pic) is general […]
Pittsburgh upgrades four strings
The Pittsburgh Symphony has promoted violinist Justine Campagna to Associate Concertmaster and Dylan Naroff to Assistant Concertmaster. In the cellos, Dale Jeong has been named Associate Principal Cello and Yun-Ya Lo joins as a section […]
Peruvian wins Karajan place
The Peruvian Dayner Tafur-Díaz has won the Siemens Conductors Competition with a prize of studying in the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Tafur-Díaz, 26, stood out among 68 contestants from 29 countries. The post […]
Two composers meet in idyll
The exiled Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov paid a call yesterday on his contemporary Arvo Pärt in his Estonian retreat. The Estonia Hall in Talinn is putting on a Silvestrov concert tonight. The post Two composers […]
Hugues Gall’s husband has died
Two weeks after the passing of the Geneva and Paris opera chief Hugues Gall, he has been followed by his longstanding partner, the dancer and choreigrapher Eric Vu-An. Eric was 60. He died of cancer […]
Koreans dominate singing competition
The Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition has been won by the South Korean baritone Jungrae Noah Kim. Of the 121 contestants from 39 nations who made it into the finals in the Latvian town of […]
Is the CBSO ashamed of its opera
Birmingham Opera Company is about to perform Tippett’s opera New Year. It is an extremely rare event, dividing opinions sharply on itsm merits. Keith Warner will direct. BOC Music Director Alpesh Chauhan will conduct the […]
‘Zionists can’t make jazz’
… One of several racist slogans smeared on an Israeli-owned jazz club in New York which was attacked by racists with red paint. Report here. pictured: Club owner Omer Avital The post ‘Zionists can’t make […]
Sudden death of UK principal oboe
Royal Liverpool Phil’s Sandra Parr has reported the death of former Merseyside Youth Orchestra star Tim Watts. Timothy went on to become 2nd oboe of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Oboe of English Touring […]
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