The German town of Heimbach has named a road bridge to its power station in honour of the late Lars Vogt, founder of its music festival. Vogt, who died of cancer in September 2022, initiated a series of concerts inside the power station.
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Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall will reopen tomorrow after three years of refurbishment. Designed by Alvar Aalto, the landmark venue has been reconfigured as an all-day venue, with restaurants and other facilities, including two Aalto-designed apartments for […]
We hear that Mariko Wyrick has won the cello vacancy in the hotly competed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra auditions after three rounds behind the screen. Mariko, from California, plays with her sister in the American Ballet […]
We have been notified of the death yesterday of David Rendall, a dominant figure at Covent Garden from the late 1970s. Having sung solo in a Herbert von Karajan Bruckner Te Deum, he went on […]
