The Hochschule für Musik und Theater München has appointed Simon Mack to be professor of music theory.
A German-born crossover composer, Mack could be mistaken for a younger version of Munich’s other Simon.
New Simon photo: HMTM/Jakob Schad
Other Simon:
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Eight and a half years ago, Valery Gergiev conducted an all-male concert in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra to celebrate its reconquest by Putin forces on behalf of the chemical mass-murderer Bashir al-Assad. This […]
Italy’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck. Singers will make their entrance by helicopter. Read here. The post Madama Butterfly on a battleship appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Cologne public prosecutor has told Van magazine that the city’s former general music director, François-Xavier Roth, is no longer under criminal investigation. There were insufficient grounds for suspicion, the prosecutor said. Roth, 52, had […]
