We hear that Mariko Wyrick has won the cello vacancy in the hotly competed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra auditions after three rounds behind the screen.
Mariko, from California, plays with her sister in the American Ballet Orchestra.
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Our resident critic has spent his week at Handel and Mozart operas: by Alastair Macaulay In 1930, William Empson wrote a classic of literary criticism in “Seven Kinds of Ambiguity”. In subsequent decades, the title […]
The Estonian modernist-turned-minimalist was born on September 11, 1935. His influence on music today is more widespread than any living composer. The post Arvo Pärt, 90 today appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre presents its biennial Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Gala Concert at Maison symphonique de Montréal on October 28, 2024, at 7:30 pm ET. The magnificent Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal […]
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