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From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a graduate student and teach lessons as a part of my scholarship. One of my students just doesn’t practice. It’s incredibly obvious. Then she gives me […]

The Eugene Symphony has named Alex Prior as its music director, starting in October. Prior, 32, previously had one term as music director in Edmonton, Canada, and another in Erfurt, Germany. He said: ‘I was […]

Deborah Rutter, sacked as president of the Kennedy Center by Trumpist board, has been named keynote speaker for Opera America’s 2025 conference in Miami. Opera America, based in New York, is the national forum and […]

Dvořák wrote The Devil and Kate just before Rusalka at the height of his powers as an orchestral composer and at a period of keen interest in fairytale and mythological themes. There is much purely instrumental music partly justified […]

W. H. Auden Click here to watch “The trees encountered on a country stroll / Reveal a lot about a country’s soul.” ​ On February 23, 1956, W.H. Auden  delivered a poetry reading at The […]

Several audeience members have told us that US vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha were booed as they took seats last night at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. One person […]

The world premiere of Salome by Gerald Barry will take place tomorrow in Magdeburg, Germany. Here’s some blurb: Salome – wait! That’s an opera by Richard Strauss! Yes, and one by Antoine Mariotte, plus incidental […]

Message from Andrew Balfour, a Cree composer from Winnipeg: Yesterday is a day I’d rather forget. Even with what I thought was proper paperwork, I was denied entry in US. So, they put you in […]

press release: Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the highly-anticipated The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, created by Kennedy Center’s first Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. The Grammy Award®-winning opera, which follows the life of […]

The orchestra, with music director Andris Nelsons, has added Samuel Andonian and Arianna Brusubardis Grace to its violin section. Both are local youngesters. Caleb Quillen (pictured) of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra succeeds Ed Barker as […]