Best-selling US organist dies, 81
The ever-popular Michael Murray died last week at the age of 81. A student of Marcel Dupré, whose biography he would write, Murray was organist of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, for 31 […]
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Where’s Anna Netrebko?
The Russian-Austrian diva has been seen this week in Amsterdam in the company of her new beau, the Hungarian-Romanian bass Alexander Köpeczi. The pair have been friends since April when they sang together in La […]
Ryanair refuses to board a violin
With Ryanair, it’s almost as if they go to work each day wondering how to inflict more distress on their passengers. This just in from the violinist Esther Abrami: Today I was refused boarding on […]
An American tenor in Paris dies, aged 77
We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris. He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn […]
Famed French organ is destroyed by arson
The 1861 Merklin organ at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, Northern France, has been completely destroyed in an overnight fire, believed to be the work of arsonists. The fire broke out at […]
Franz and Cleveland headline 24-hour Bruckner marathon
Today’s 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner is being religiously observed in his hometown Linz and nearby villages. Here’s the schedule: Midnight at the Mariendom: Bells and imported sounds 4am in the birthplace at Ansfelden: musical […]
Billy Joel faces $15m drummer claim
A session drummer, Joseph Roderick Jr., has filed a $15 million lawsuit in Arizona against the singer-composer Bill Joel for rights in the song You May Be Right, dating back to 1979. Roderick seeks ‘all […]
Music director calls time on Washington DC
Washington National Cathedral has been shaken by the unforseen departure of its British director of music, Michael McCarthy. Mike writes: Having nearly completed my 21st year at the National Cathedral and having had the benefit […]
Media chief quits San Francisco Symphony
After a tough year fronting for a disaffected music director and an obdurate board, Robin Freeman has quit the San Francisco Symphony, where she was chief marketing and communications officer.The Fine Arts Museums of San […]
Russian composer faces deportation from Germany
Kerstin Holm, a culture editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has written an open letter to the federal government, calling on them to rescine plans to deport composer Vladimir Tarnopolsky back to Russia. Tarnopolsky, 69, […]
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