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The lovely mezzo-soprano Margaret Cable died on Tuesday of complications following surgery. She was 82. Married to the LSO tuba virtuoso John Fletcher (who died in 1987), Cable sang at festivals across Europe and the […]

One of the five climate protestors sentenced yesterday to four years in jail is Cressida Gethin, 22, from Hertfordshire. A music student at Cambridge University, she is the daughter of the cellist Nick Gethin, who […]

Peter Biggs resigned as CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in April, officially ‘for a number of reasons, including health’. It now transpires that he admitted to his board chair ‘grievous errors of judgment’ […]

They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava. The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him. ‘A faraway country of which we […]

The Kiss holds a unique place in Smetana’s oeuvre; it was the first operatic work he composed after the great personal tragedy of completely losing his hearing. Eliška Krásnohorská adapted a short story by Czech […]

Rubens – The Judgement of Paris – National Gallery Behind the Scenes at the National Gallery Britta New shows how science and new technology improve our understanding of conservation changes that have been made to […]

Dear Alma, A member of my chamber ensemble is always late for rehearsals, barely makes our flights, and the other week we had to delay our start time for a concert because they misread the […]

The company needs small change for the very basics: We need your help, now more than ever. Whether it’s £15 to provide our Costume department with a month’s supply of thread or £50 to cover […]

The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]

The confusion over cathedral music just deepened. St Alban’s has issued this news: We are delighted to share with you that Oliver Morrell, our Organ Scholar here at St Albans Cathedral, will be moving to […]