The next quartet to call it quits
It’s the Artis. Formed in Vienna, they have been playing together over four decades and have decided to take a rest. First violin Peter Schuhmayr tells slippedisc.com: ‘We think it is time to officially announce […]
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Cleveland promotes youth conductor
The Cleveland Orchestra has upgraded Daniel Reith to Associate Conductor with immediate effect. He is presently Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, with around 100 middle and high-school musicians. The post Cleveland promotes […]
Alastair Macaulay: Sarasota outdances Royal Ballet in Ashton
Frederick Ashton, from Sarasota 2024.iv.05 by Alastair Macaulay Since choreography presents dance in terms of time and space, its greatest achievements make us feels time and space as never before. Frederick Ashton (1904-1988), founder choreographer […]
Israel Phil mourns former principal percussion
The death has been notified of Kenneth Krohn, seen here jamming with Mehta and Perlman in the 1980s IPO. His last positions were Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Montgomery College, Maryland, and timpanist of the […]
Asia cancels Roth’s orchestra
Les Siecles have lost a November tour to Korea and Japan following ots conductor Francois-Xavier Roth’s suspension over indecent images. The local organisers ‘sincerely apologise’ for the inconvenience and promise ‘to do our best to […]
John Eliot Gardiner books comeback
The conductor, 81, plans to end his enforced sabbatical next month with a concert in Montpellier. He will conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in the south of France in Weber’s Oberon overture, Beethoven’s […]
Covent Garden’s Carmen still sings in the Underground
From an Aigul Akhmetshina interview with Farah Nayeri in the NY Times: ‘I love to sometimes spontaneously sing in the London Underground, shock people. On a recent holiday in Dubai, I was on the beach […]
Andrea Bocelli: The son rises in Hyde Park
The Italian singer has added his son Matteo and the Welsh songbird Katherine Jenkins to a mass concert he is giving in London next month. Papa Bocelli said: ‘Hyde Park is the perfect place for […]
King gongs New
The conductor Gemma New has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s Birthday Honours. New, 37, said she was thrilled that the role of orchestral music in New […]
Berlin commemorates Busoni
The house where Ferruccio Busoni lived from 1902-08, and where he composed his monumental piano concerto, was remembered with a memorial plaque yesterday in Berlin. Next month sees the centenary of the composer’s death. Igor […]
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