The emeritus music director of the Chicago Symphony seems charmingly vague about his successor in an interview with Dennis Polkow. Or maybe he’s just kidding, with a touch of malice. Excerpt: “I didn’t want to […]
The Berlin Philharmonic conductor has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2026, worth a million Danish crowns (about £120k). He will be required to conduct the DR Symphony Orchestra at a gala concert next […]
Southwark Cathedral has named Helen Smee as its next Director of Music. She is presently director of Frideswide Voices, the girls’ choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Before that, she was at Worcester College. She […]