After 24 years as concertmaster, the English violinist Katherine Hunka is leaving the Irish Chamber Orchestra to pursue other challenges.
She explains: ‘I always wanted to avoid cynicism.’
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The Met chief had a big birthday bash in Montreal on Sunday. Some impressive talent turned out. The post Forever young? Yannick turns 50 appeared first on Slippedisc.
Friends have reported that the quietly influential minimalist composer Tom Johnson died this morning at the age of 85. As critic for the Village Voice in the 1970s, he tracked the rise of Glass-Reich type […]
The music collection of Liverpool flautist and humourist Fritz Spiegl (1926-2003) is up for sale at Sotheby’s next week, July 11. It includes a letter in English from Mendelssohn, and plenty from more recent English […]
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