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Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]

  Colonel Arnald Gabriel, a war hero, became conductor of the US Air Force Band. His musicians esteeked him. Watch. The post US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.

New is just in that Hamburg Ballet has terminated its director Demis Volpi amid recent talk of a toxic work environment.  Volpi succeeded the long-serving John Neumeier a year ago. Summary dismissal is hiughly unusual […]

The hopelessly discredited funding body announced a major U-turn today. After years of complaint that it was making arts orgs spend more time on filling forms than making art, it has eased the rules for […]

Sophie Wang, in her third year with the orchestra, has been promoted to associate concertmaster, effectively number three in the violins. She inherit the seat of Alexander Velinzon who was made first associate concertmaster last […]

Portuguese media are reporting that a Maria João Pires concert scheduled for June 18th in Faro has been cancelled due to a ‘slight stroke’, Pires, who turns 81 next month, has also withdrawn from concerts […]

The journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture reports that leafy vegetables can be grown larger and faster if you play them classical music. Bach’s Brandenburg concertos yielded the best results, especially with pak-choi plants. Rock […]

HarrisonParrott has inked a 14 year-old Finnish schoolgirl, Lilja Haatainen, who plays the violin. She has already played concertos with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Finnish Chamber Orchestra, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, […]

The Music Academy of the West has just bought itself a plot for a year-round Music Education Center. The purchase was facilitated by a $20 million gift from Cheryl Goldberg (pictured), in memory of her […]