From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I have been married for many years and have college-aged children. We have been members of the same orchestra for nearly this whole time. One year ago, he was […]
The founder of Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, has decided this will be his last season in charge. He says: ‘When Boston Baroque started 50-plus years ago, it was at a time when there were no […]
Alexander Brose was confirmed yesterday, after a probationary year, as President and CEO of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He greeted the appointment by issuing a video of himself singing ‘A Nightingale Sang […]
The Seattle Symphony, whose last music director stormed out two years ago in a flurry of emails, has found someone to take over next year. The new music director will be Xian Zhang, music director […]
Opéra national de Paris makes its Slippedisc and OperaVision debut with Gaspare Spontini’s La Vestale, a rarely performed opera that was triumphantly received when it premiered on this very stage in 1807. Stage director Lydia […]
An outstanding organist on the staff of Eton College has been banned from teaching for life after searches for ‘gay little boys’ were found on his computer. David Goode, 52, has been organist-in-residence at Christ […]
Itzhak and Toby Perlman have relisted their Upper West Side townhouse for sale at a considerably reduced price. Last put up for sale for $17.5 million in March 2022, the pad if now going for […]
The accounts are in for the fiscal year ending August 2023, and here are the top earners: Music director Van Zweden (via Bajada Productions) … $1,525,711 Executive director Deborah Borda … $1,317,344 plus $400,000 bonus […]
The apparently departing music director has gone to great lengths to reassure the West Coast that, whatever happens in New York, home stays home. From an interview with Mark Swed of the LA Times: “I […]
Who? Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically […]
