Lang Lang got a Christmas sweater

Message received: The MSO is thrilled to announce that German-based Australian violinist Natalie Chee will join the MSO as our next Concertmaster, commencing January 2026. Natalie has been Concertmaster of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne […]

Music in the Midnight Sun – Toronto Symphony  For many of us, the Arctic exists only as a fantasy of snow and polar bears and endangered icebergs. Ignorant as ever, I didn’t realise that people […]

They may have no chief conductor in sight, and no clear strategic goals, but for want of anything better to do the payroll-heavy LA Phil just keeps on promoting its own. We hear that Cynthia […]