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This is a message from Jan van den Borre, of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, to members of the Dutch Culture Council. Van den Borre is the incoming director of the Flanders Festival. Things […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I love artists who attempt the impossible. Within reason, that is. I’d draw the line at someone playing the 32 Beethoven sonatas one-handed, or the 15 Shostakovich quartets […]

We gather that Juilliard has summarily fired a professor of violin after he was caught in what is said to be ‘a lewd act’. Apart from two witnesses who opened the door of his studio […]