Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale

The orchestra and its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have chosen three new cellists – one Chinese, one from Taiwan and an Israeli. Jiayin He, from Shanghai, is presently principal cello in the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. […]

The composer Halvor Haug died on June 3. He leaves five symphonies, one of which is titled ‘The Inscrutable Life’. Born in Trondheim, Haug studied in Oslo and Helsinki before concluding his studies in 1970s […]

The maestro has given the first of his pre-New Year’s Day Vienna concert interviews. Sample quote on woke and cancel culture: ‘This is something I absolutely reject. Nothing must be erased, on the contrary, all […]