Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

The former Birmingham music director Mirga Gražinte-Tyla made an acclaimed debut with the Gewandhaus on Friday night, conducting works by Silvestrov, Kissine, Debussy and Ravel. The event had a sentimental dimension. Mirga spent her early […]

Lynne Turner, who was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1962 by Music Director Fritz Reiner, will retire at the end of this summer’s Ravinia Festival, it was announced today. Turner first appeared with […]

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 […]