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 […]
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner of the CDU is not hardening his plan to cut 12 percent from the city’s art spend. He says: ‘I think we have to get away from the mentality of ‘we […]
Review by our roaming critic, Susan Hall: Hans Werner Henze’s Prince of Homburg is playing at Oper Frankfurt. Jens-Daniel Herzog has created a dream world full of beauty mixed with horror. The production is set […]