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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From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I am a retired public music teacher in a mid-sized town. My local orchestra programs quite a bit of the old stuffy repertoire, and I like to bring the […]
The Minnesota Orchestra is not afraid of the unfamiliar. The Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli outs on Venezuelan-Chilean composer Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3, and First Associate Concertmaster Susie Park performs Mexican-born Gabriela […]
My goodness, the quality in Telemann’s works is high. Soon, we’ll be looking at a disc of early cantatas (along with a work by Heinichen) on cpo, but t’s time for chamber music: the first […]
