The orchestra world has known for a while that the Baltimore Symphony is seething with unresolved conflict. The matter started when the concertmaster Jonathan Carney allegedly made a sexual advance to the principal oboist Katharine […]
Anselm McDonnell Belfast-based composer Anselm McDonnell appeared on these pages earlier this year with my review of his third album, Politics of the Imagination, featuring music where political commentary and sheer playfulness combine with a […]
The venerated pianist, playing the first Shostakovich concerto last night in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic, asked the conductor Lahav Shani to announce that she was playing the encore for Alon Ohel, a prisoner […]