The Académie des Beaux-Arts has announced the death of Hugues Gall, director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for 15 years and then of the Opéra de Paris until 2004. Hugues, who was 84, was […]
We have learned of the death of Milton Scheuermann, founder in 1966 of New Orleans Musica da Camera, now the oldest surviving early music organization in the US. He also co-hosted Continuum, America’s longest-running early […]
Previously, we covered three string quartets by Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) in this post. While he was certainly tremendously popular in his day, Pleyel’s music has dipped into obscurity s0 for a long time he was […]