Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I’m finishing second year at a midwestern university and things were going well until now. But there’s end-of-year stuff going on and it’s getting a bit weird. My […]

The annual shlock-fest of voyeuristic folly has a fervid fan. The conductor Paavo Järvi, head of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, has his eyeballs ready and his twitter-fingers itching. He can’t wait for the vote from […]

The Orchestre National de France has named its next chief conductor to succeed Cristian Macelaru (who’s heading to Cincinnati). The incoming boss will be Philippe Jordan, music director of the Vienna State Opera, whose tenure […]