The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak.
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David Zinman, former music director of the Baltimore Symphony and Tonhalle Zurich, has lost his beloved wife. He writes: It is with great sorrow that we mourn the passing of dear Mary She was a […]
This box set was apparently issued to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the DAFO String Quartet. But you would never know that unless you read the enclosed booklet very attentively, where it is inconspicuously mentioned […]
An epoch has ended. Alastair Macaulay reports from Glyndebourne: Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, announced from the Glyndebourne stage that this had been his final performance; I wish I had been there. […]
