We hear that all airlines in Europe are routinely overbooked this month. Some worse than others. This cri de coeur has just landed from the celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer: I feel I must share the […]
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Wise Music Group and Hal Leonard have gone to court expensively in London over a 2018 licensing agreement. Wise terminated the agreement. Leonard says it had no grounds. The lawyers are having a field day […]
At St-Félix-de-Valois, near Joliette, home of Canada’s largest classical music festival, Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 63 kilograms of Cocaine inside a Grand Piano that was being delivered to the town. The piano (pictured) is […]
The French film composer Alexandre Desplat has signed with HarrisonParrott for global classical management. Desplat, 62, has been involved in 130 films, winning Academy Awards for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of […]
The Frenchman, who withdrew from conducting this summer after being accused of sending dick-pics to female musicians, has just been reconfirmed to take over as chief conductor of the SWR Orchestra in 2025. The Stuttgart-based […]
Jonathan Manners has been appointed Director of the BBC Singers ‘following a competitive recruitment process’. Manners has been the group’s producer since 2016, responsible for artistic direction and broadcast output. He says: ‘I am thrilled […]
The Arts Council was founded in 1946, in the words of Maynard Keynes, ‘to encourage the best British national arts, everywhere, and to do it as far as possible by supporting others rather than by […]
Apple Music Classical extended its reach today to a pair of summer festivals, Aspen and Verbier. It also hooked into concerts from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. None […]
The death is reported of Juan Carlos Núñez, a composer much beloved of Venezuelan musicians, both at home and in exile. After studies in Warsaw, Núñez conducted most of the leading orchestras and encouraged composers […]
