For the 2024/25 season, Sir Antonio Pappano ceded his position at the orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome to Daniel Harding; Pappano remains Conductor Emeritus. This is the finest modern Sheherazade: I remember being umbilically […]
The New York shipping magnate Elias N. Kulukundis has donated most of his lifetime Bach family collection to the Bach Archive in Leipzig. It includes the autograph score of Johann Christian Bach’s opera Zanaida, letters […]
I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-Knew-a-Man-Who-Knew-Brahms/Nancy-Shear/9798888456620 I don’t review books on Ruth Leon‘s Theatrewise but I want to bring this one to your attention because I’ve just read it myself and became absorbed into the life […]