Death of a noted US maestro
The death has been published today of Adrian Gnam, George Szell’s principal oboe at the Cleveland Orchestra and later music director of the Macon Symphony Orchestra in Georgia for 27 years. Her served for eight […]
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Rattle’s orchestra blasts newspaper for lack of reviews
The manager of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Pont, has circulated an open letter to colleagues, lashing out at the Süddeutsche Zeitung for minimising reviews of the orchestra. ‘I heard at the end of […]
Clive Gillinson: All I knew was how musicians think
The Carnegie Hall director Sir Clive Gillinson is the latest guest on David Krauss’s Speaking Soundly. Clive talks about getting thrown out of the National Youth Orchestra, being catapulted from the cellos to the manager’s […]
Russian symphonist, RIP
The composer Gennadi Banshchikov has died in St Petersburg, aged 82. He leaves 4 symphonies, 5 cello concertos and a cahmber opera, chamber opera The Great Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich. The post […]
Countryhouse opera loses chief
Executive Director Nicola Creed will leave Garsington Opera at the end of the summer after 25 years. press release: Nicola became Executive Director in 2013 after 14 years as Associate Director. She shares the leadership […]
Juilliard cellist dies, 84
The death has been made known fo Joel Krosnick, cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet for exactly half his life, from 1974 to 2016. He was chair of the cello department for much of that […]
Andras Schiff: Steinway is too dominant
From an interview with BR-Klassik: The world of piano music has become very one-sided—to put it bluntly, globalized. Steinway dominates the piano world. Steinway is a wonderful grand piano—but not all Steinways are the same. […]
Going viral: My cat won’t let me play piano
I am Siamese, if you please. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @meowlodytv The boy’s name is Owen Greene. He is 12 years old, from around the Seattle area. This […]
Dutch replace Barenboim
The Concertgebouw’s Mahler festival has its first jump-in. Sakari Oramo has been recruited to conduct the Adagio from the 10th symphony, followed by Das Lied von der Erde, on May 18, the anniversary of Mahler’s […]
Death of Iceland’s formative pianist
The Icelandic musician Jònas Ingimundarson, known as Mr Piano in his homeland, died on Monday, aged 80. Aside from his solo career, he was a cherished accompanist to the country’s leading singers. His son, Haukur, […]
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