The exciting new regime at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has prompted quite a few formerly loyal staff members to contemplate a refreshing career change. Among recent departures are the Orchestra Manager, Head of […]
The composer has sent this missive to the Sevastopol Opera and Ballet Theatre: It has come to my attention that a ballet entitled Wuthering Heights featuring my music and using my name in its advertising […]
It was originally announced that Cristian Măcelaru would conduct the Orchestre National de France at today’s opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. It now appears that Klaus Mäkelä has been recruited to conduct the Orchestre […]
Orchestral players wanted for miming work on-screen. Need to be based in Scotland, for work in the first half of September. Instruments required: Violin Viola Cello Double Bass Cor Anglais Flute Clarinet We pay above […]
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I won my place in this orchestra together with my best friend from college. She’s outgoing, I’m so not. Two seasons in, I think she’s slept with five musicians, […]
Carolina Codina married Sergei Prokofiev in 1923, returned with him to Moscow in 1936, was dumped by her husband four years later and would up in one of Stalin’s gulags. Now, a Polish play in […]
The festival is making stringent economies. Before it began, Katharina Wagner said that, after cuts, the chorus would be maintained at 134 singers. Today, the festival website listed 118. Tobias Könemann of the Union of […]
‘How long have I got to live?’ says Adrian Sutton, composer of the theatre hit War Horse, who has terminal cancer. ‘No idea.. but in my situation, I can’t waste time thinking about things I […]
Ohio Police have arrested a former concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in connection with the alleged rape of a child between the years 2008 and 2019, starting when she was six years old. He […]
Channelling Edward Moore – Met Museum Obsessions are fascinating. Here’s a splendid film about one woman’s job. Eileen Travell is a photographer at the Met. It is her voice telling us about the objects made […]
