Dancing on the edge of a volcano

We hear that Stephen Rose, former head of violin studies, has quit the sinking Cleveland Institute of Music. We have not yet seen his resignation letter, but he’s at least the sixth faculty member to […]

Kwamé Ryan, music director of the Charlotte Symphony, says he owes it all to Cbeebies: … Whenever I hear people refer to orchestral music as arcane or incompatible with young ears, it occurs to me […]

The Venetian musicologist Michele Girardi has died in his home town after a long illness. An international authority on the operas of Puccini, he recently stepped down as chair in the History of Music at […]