We reported in December that the Venezuelan violinist, Gabriela Lara, concertmaster of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, was Klaus Mäkelä’s first hire at the Chicago Symphony.
It now turns out she is the first Latina in the orchestra.
What took them so long?
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Three new Shakespeare productions opened this week. Nicholas Hytner’s Richard II livened up London’s Bridge. Tom Hiddleston shed his shirt in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And Rupert Goold directed a revised Hamlet with […]
Page from the edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497 Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon, Jean-Philippe Rameau:Pygmalion; Anna Dennis, Rachel Redmond, Katie Bray, Thomas Walker , Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; BarbicanReviewed by […]
The contemporary-music quartet, which has been self-managed for musch of its history has placed its North American management with John Zion at MKI Artists in Burlington, Vermont. The post Biz news: Kronos get managed appeared […]
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