Daniel Barenboim, end of tour

The crisis-ridden Cannberra Symphony has been told it will get an extra $4.1 million in next week’s federal budget to cope with falling audiences and sponsorship. The orchestra devotes 45 percent of its programming to […]

The Swiss composer Pierre Mariétan died yesterday in his 90th year. A former associate of Boulez and Stockhausen, he leaves 300 instrumental, orchestral, vocal and electro-acoustic works. His pièce de résistance is Paysmusique (1991), which […]

Chicago’s Lyric Opera has appointed John Mangum  of the Houston Symphony to be its next general director. In an interview to be published next Tuesday, he tells Janos Gereben of San Francisco Classical Voice: ‘I’ve […]