The death has been notified of Kenneth Krohn, seen here jamming with Mehta and Perlman in the 1980s IPO.
His last positions were Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Montgomery College, Maryland, and timpanist of the Capital Wind Symphony.
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The formidable cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Auschwitz survivor and longterm moral conscience of London’s orchestras, turned 100 today. Instead of a telegram from the King, she received a personal visit. The post Anita, 100 appeared […]
By our roving New York critic Susan Hall: Maestra, a lively documentary film by Maggie Contreras, opens in the United States this week. The film follows five contestants in the second biennial Maestra competition […]
The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal). Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a […]
