Hallelujah as never before

Friends are mourning the passing of Brigitte Marger (Mondoloni), one of the kindest yet most effective members of the Boulez circle in Paris. Brigitte was director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and later of the Cité […]

The much-loved instrument maker George Stoppani died over Christmas. Aside from making instruments he created a brand of  ‘Real Guts Strings’ and was an international authority on instrumental acoustics.     The post English luthier […]

The legendary tabla player, composer, actor and producer Zakir Hussain died today in a US hospital at the age of 73. A government minister declared him ‘irreplaceable’. Zakir Hussain shot to fame in the 1970s, […]