The Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber is taking over this week’s Cosi fan tutti in Hamburg, a full year before he starts work as Generalmusikdirektor.
The Bremen kapellmeister William Kelley (pictured) will conduct the remaining performances. He’s from North Carolina and fast becoming a Hamburg favourite.
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The Yehudi Menuhin School has chosen its next head, replacing Ashley Wass in September. She is violist Rosalind Ventris, Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at the University of Oxford and an active chamber […]
Alastair Macaulay writes movingly about a musician he greatly admired: John Cage (1912-1992) died thirty-two years ago today, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Merce Cunningham, his life partner, came home from rehearsals […]
