Slipped Disc

An entertaining essay in the New York Times by harpist Parker Ramsaydoes its damnedest to pluck the instrument from obscurity. … I’m a professional harpist. So is my mother. Some of my earliest exposure to […]

A howl has gone up at Die Presse at the sight of next season’s concert listings. Chief critic by Wilhelm Sinkovicz has counted the concerts from two leading promoters and found that there is more […]

Chinoiserie Join Iris Moon, Associate Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum, along with artist Patty Chang, Professor of Art, University of Southern California, to explore Monstrous Beauty: […]

Martin Graham, founder of Longborough Festival Opera, died yesterday aged 83. Longborough statement: A grammar-school boy and builder with no formal musical training, Martin transformed a Gloucestershire barn, a love of music, and a passion […]

The Philharmonia unfurled its new season today: The season also includes a collaboration with visual artists Gilbert & George, a genre-crossing heavy metal project, and an opera about the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match. […]

Every April for as long as I can remember I have ripped open the BBC Proms Guide a few days ahead of publication in search of coming summer thrills. A sad life, I know, but […]

The Jacksonville Symphony in Florida, which recently banked an anonymous $15 million donation, has just received a $3 million top-up from the Terry Family Foundation. The orchestra says: ‘This remarkable gift will strengthen the Symphony’s […]

The NY Times has a soft feature today about its favourite pianist Jeremy Denk choosing a new piano for the Frick. He has a choice of three, all Steinways. America knows no other concert brand. […]

The rising composer Clemens K. Thomas had an opera, ‘Dollhouse’, premiered in Hamburg a few months back. Now he’s putting on an orchestral piece called ‘Girls und Panzer’. Tricky, right? Thomas explains: I was commissioned […]

We understand that Andre Schoch, principal of the Berlin Philharmonic, has left the orchestra to be professor of trumpet at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim. Schoch, 37, joined the Berlin Phil in 2017 […]