Leonard Slatkin remembers: It was a hastily arranged marriage. The National Symphony Orchestra was looking for a new music director, and after André Previn turned down the job offer, I was approached. My relationship with […]
The competition started last night, reduced to 28 participants instead of 30. The Russian Anastasia Vorotnaya quit last weekend. She has now been joined by Korkmaz Can Sağlam, 25, of Turkey, claiming health issues. The […]
From an interview with the German-based US director Lydia Steier: The hall (in the Wartburg) is based on the architecture of Albert Speer. We set the second act in 1938, as a quote from the […]
The veteran rocker and American chronicler has issued a six-track EP with the speech he made in Manchester, accusing Presidnet Trump of running a ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’. Trump responded ‘he ought to keep […]
Joseph Horowitz reports: At the precise moment that US President Donald Trump was accusing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of denying acts of racial persecution, the University of Michigan Orchestra began a five-concert tour of […]
The Dutch website pointer has published anonymous complaints of verbal abuse by the Dutch international conductor Jaap van Zweden. The full report will go online later today. Van Zweden is former music director of the […]
Britten Peard Arts has appointed a career-long artists’ agent to succeed Sir Simon Robey as board chair. Angela Mallinson, 64, has been on the BPA board for five years. She was a founder of the […]
National Theatre Click here for tickets From the Natonal Theatre comes a new online release, All of Us, a play by Francesca Martinez, who is an award-winning author, comedian and actor. In All of Us, […]
The death has been made known of the American tenor saxophone and clarinet virtuoso John Ruocco, director of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and of The Hague Conservatory big band. He was 72. Born in September […]
Deborah Rutter, the Kennedy Center CEO who was sacked by the Trump regime, has issued a detailed statement in response to allegations by her amateur successor of financial mismanagement under her regime. Rutter retorts that […]
