Friends are reporting the death of Donald McInnes, influential performer and teacher. With an international career, he was long associated with the University of Southern California in Los Angeles at the Thornton School of Music. […]
Dear Alma, I have been a member of an amateur orchestra for a number of years. My standpartner and I are both retired, married, with kids long gone. We have developed a special bond and […]
The popular Quebec violinist Angèle Dubeau has been forced to give up playing by a persistent hand injury. She says: ‘For as long as I can remember, music has been a part of my life. […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Into every musical life, a little Schmidt must fall. I cannot count the conductors who have tried to persuade me that the Viennese cellist Franz Schmidt belongs among […]
From a special correspondent: An infant in the upper balcony started to cry softly during the last bars of Ukranian composer Valentyn Silvestrov’s Prayer for the Ukraine, expressing the poignancy of his prayer and the […]
What better way to celebrate World Opera Day together than with La bohème ? Touching, comic, realistic and romantic, Puccini’s most popular opera is a timeless testament to the power of love to blossom in the […]
Hamlet with Ian McKellen Click here for subscription tv Ian McKellen is having fun. He first played Hamlet at the age of 31, in 1971. Now he is 85, and having taken on all the heavyweight roles of […]
Queen Mary’s Photograph Album Members of the royal family have been compiling photo albums of their memories for generations. The Royal Photograph Collection houses Queen Mary’s 33 albums, which contain photographs documenting her official visits, family life, and […]
Quarterly figures released today show that Radio 3 listenership has topped 2 million once more and a record number of individual hours was spent listening to the station. They must be doing something right. Classic […]
Matthew Raimondi died in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the age of 96 on Saturday, October 19. He is survived by his wife, Natalie, and daughter, Diana, and scores of friends and fellow musicians with whom […]
