So, Kamala Harris, do you know music?
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How short is an arm in the arts?
Richard Bratby, in a poignant analysis in The Critic of the slow suicide of Arts Council England, concludes with this important point: The arm’s-length principle is one aspect of the Arts Council that needs to […]
A titan of the piano turns 80
Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]
Composer’s widow weds
The Israeli composer Ella Sheriff, widow of Noam Sheriff who died six years ago, got married in a private New York ceremony yesterday to Noam Ziv, from Jerusalem. Our blessings to the happy couple. Ella […]
Salzburg artistic director is banned from local cafe
The persistent journalist Axel Brüggemann has obtained confirmation of long-running rumours that the artistic director of the Salzburg Festival Markus Hinterhäuser has been blacklisted by the Cafe Bazar, a popular watering hole. Ours not to […]
Death of Grove editor, 58
The Society for American Music has announced the death of Charles Hiroshi Garrett, general editor of the 2013 second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music. He was a member of the faculty of […]
Remember New York City Opera?
It died, for lack of funds and an excess of interference by individual board members. The death last week of Mary Sharp Cronson reminded one of our readers that she was the force behind the […]
BeethovenFest to discuss colonialism, exploitation and LGBTQ+
The Bonn festival, in October, has booked Belgium’s B’Rock Orchestra to contextualise the first symphony: The B’Rock Orchestra feels like an integral part of society and wants to contribute to a meaningful discussion. In its […]
Finn star: I’ll do Vaughan Williams in France
From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the Granada Festival: ‘A personal passion of mine is the music of Vaughan Williams, the great English composer, which is not really played anywhere. So we shall be […]
Yuja Wang: Conducting is ‘like doing it with the condom off’
Never lost for an eye-catching line, the pianist concludes a dreary interview in the Telegraph with this going-home gift: I ask Wang about her future career goals and she suggests she’d like to do more […]
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