It’s been a while: well, over 40 years, since I heard Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, in an amdram production just outside of Manchester in which I was playing French horn. Has absence made the […]
We have been informed of the passing of two important players. Bernard Ringeissen, who died on April 4 at the age of 90, was an early champion on record of the music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, […]
The conductor will miss the first three weeks of the Cleveland Orchestra season, having returned unwell from its European tour. His replacements will be Osmo Vänskä, Elim Chan and associate conductor Daniel Reith. The deceptively […]