From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I have a nosy viola professor! She’s always bringing up dramas and problems she has with university students and co-workers within the music school. It’s getting to the point […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The second symphony by this unsung French composer has been included in this summer’s BBC Proms and I wanted to get familiar with it before deciding whether to […]
The death has been made known of Susann McDonald, co-founder and artistic director of the World Harp Congress. Susann was three days past her 90th birthday. A student of Lily Laskine in Paris, she followed […]
The Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan, chief of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for the past four years, has been named music director of LA Opera from July 2026. Hindoyan, 45, is married to the star […]
In Kansas City. Who’d have thought? The post A concert of works by transgender composers appeared first on Slippedisc.
Why don’t we hear more Lutoslawski? So much wit and worldliness. The post A little Luto for the weekend appeared first on Slippedisc.
Bobby Darin Just in Time, the musical about the late Bobby Darin, was the only major Tony contender I didn’t manage to see while I was in New York, although I tried, but here, to […]
The pianist Charles Wadsworth, Spoleto’s founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music, has died in New York. He also created and ran the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from 1969 to 1989. Charles is survived […]
The Vienna Philharmonic has replaced an unwell Franz Welser-Möst in four concerts next weekend with Ivan Fischer. The programme is unchanged: Haydn’s 52nd, followed by Das Lied von der Erde. Minnesota Orchestra, too will have […]
Our resident critic has spent two nights at the opera: When the full history of sin is written, I hope it attends to why so many artists of the nineteenth century paid such great attention […]
