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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A bad year for Winchester Cathedral just got a whole lot sadder. William Kendall, legendary tenor lay clerk at Winchester and one of the finest church tenors in the world, passed away on Boxing Day. […]
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We’ve stumbled across this gorgeous new piece, commissioned in memory of the British nurse Edith Cavell who was executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium in the First World War. It’s by Ryan Linham with […]
