We’re hearing that talks with Philadelphia’s Matias Tarnopolski have stalled.
The new favourite to lead the New York Philharmonic is Marie-Hélène Bernard of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Some expect an announcement in the next couple of days.
Bernard has spent nine years in St Louis. Has she got the chops for NY? Guess we’ll know soon enough.
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The house where Ferruccio Busoni lived from 1902-08, and where he composed his monumental piano concerto, was remembered with a memorial plaque yesterday in Berlin. Next month sees the centenary of the composer’s death. Igor […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … My pick of the week may appear esoteric. It comes from Ludwigshafen in western Germany and is performed by the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz with its British chief […]
In 1991 I spent time with the rock-star Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, who has died aged 84. Phil had conceived a passion verging on obsession with recent, mostly British, symphonists of considerable obscurity. Havergal […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Casting a spell: baritone Andrè Schuen & pianist Julius Drake in Schumann's Heine settings at Temple Church for Temple Music")
