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From ABC News: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) — Violin teacher Constance Meyer of Beverly Hills had a nagging cough for nearly two years. But a parent of one of her students thought it was something more […]

Our chief critic has spent his week profitably: by Alastair Macaulay Among London’s several high-prestige concert halls, none matches the Wigmore Hall for its particle gift of wrapping its audience up into its performers’ music-making. […]

The pianist has poublished this letter in the NY Times: NYTimes, April 25, 2025, Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition] To the Editor: Re “Rubio Eyes Big Cuts at State Dept., Affecting […]

Today’s season announcement by Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie features a triple offering: The self-confessed »Elphi« fan Sir Simon Rattle is set to return three times this season – conducting Mahler’s »Resurrection Symphony« with the Bavarian Radio Symphony […]

At last night’s Proms launch Suzy Klein (pic), director of classical music on BBC Television, announced that no fewer than 25 of the Proms will be televised. None or ten will be on the main […]

The Juilliard School of Music has launched a half-billion fundraising drive to enable it to scrap tuition fees for all students. It has already received $180 million in pledges. School president Damian Woetzel told the […]

The Washington Examiner reports that next Tuesday’s celebration of President Trump’s 100 days has been cancelled due to ‘contract violations.’ It seems the Kennedy Center’s Director of Campus Planning and Rentals has been fired. The […]

The CBSO music director Kazuki Yamada, who last renewed his contract for just two years, signed on this morning as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He starts work in September […]

Ella Fitzgerald What is it about Ella’s voice that makes it not only unique, but compelling? She was born April 25th 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, 108 years ago  today, and died June 15th, 1996, […]