The emeritus music director of the Chicago Symphony seems charmingly vague about his successor in an interview with Dennis Polkow. Or maybe he’s just kidding, with a touch of malice. Excerpt: “I didn’t want to […]
Agnes Baltsa, who turned 80 this week,was snapoped up by Karajan for Vienna and Salzburg at the age of 25. She became the foremost Carmen of her time, but she learned very quickly to manage […]
The new tenured concertmaster of Neue Philharmonie Westfalen in the north Rhine area is the Korean violinist Sun Shin Keiner. Originally from Seoul, she studied with Kyung Sun Lee, Andreas Röhn and Günter Pichler. […]