The Augsburg State Theatre in Bavaria has founded a Paul Ben-Haim Orchestra Academy to train future musicians.
Ben-Haim, born in Munich as Paul Frankenburger and assistant to Bruno Walter, migrated to Tel Aviv in 1933 as a result of Nazi persecution. He became the founding composer of the unborn state of Israel.
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The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin. Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey […]
Jack Bazalgette (Photo: Ehimetalor Unuabona) Jack Bazalgette is perhaps best known as the co-founder and director of through the noise, which since 2020 has programmed more than 130 classical music concerts in non-traditional venues using […]
The Detroit Symphony has appointed Gracie Potter as its principal trombone. She 21, from Phoenix, Arizona. The post Phoenix rises in Detroit appeared first on Slippedisc.
