We hear that the Houston Symphony is about to announce Gary Ginstling as its new CEO.
Ginstling’s the one who resigned last July after just a year at the head of the New York Philharmonic.
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The following notice has gone up in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ending a year of unnecessary chaos. The boss was wrong. Will she admit it? The post End of: CBSO bans happy snappers appeared first […]
Francesco Scarlatti (ed. Webber)– Il Daniele nel lago de’ Leoni. Handel – Dicit Dominus, HWV 232. Armonico Consort;, Christopher Monks (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 10 January 2025 The rarest of the rare, perhaps, here: an oratorio […]
How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her. Of his own radically complex leading character, […]
