From our Prague partners, OperaPlus:
Almost half of Czechs cannot name any classical music composer. Most cited are Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart and Bedrich Smetana.
That sounds like a great result.
We’d be surprised if 1 in 10 Brits in 2025 could name a serious composer, and maybe 1 in 100 Americans.
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The Baltimore Sun today scrapped its features department, reassigning its remaining writers to the news department. This leaves the 30th-ranked US city without any reporting on its busy music scene, museums, galleries and performing arts […]
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has hired Austin Ruff as assistant principal/utility horn. He will occupy the seat of Jonathan Menkis, who retired from the BSO after 34 seasons in 2018. Ruff is presently associate principal […]
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