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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Michael Tilson Thomas is still pulling them in. Or vice-versa. The retired conductor went to see Paul Simon play at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall. The post New member of the MTT fan club appeared […]
We have been informed by people who have spoken to her daughter that the wonderful English soprano April Cantelo has died in Oxfordshire at the age of 96. A pupil of Britten’s associate Joan Cross, […]
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