The Rhode Island Philharmonic has named Ruth Reinhardt as its next music director. Originally from Saarbrücken, the daughter of two medical doctors, she studied with Alan Gilbert at Juilliard and won an assistantship at the […]
The influential New York violist Karen Ritscher has died after a series of illnesses at the age of 73. Starting out as principal viola at Dallas Opera and Houston Grand Opera, Karen went on to […]
Read here. It’s just too depressing for us to describe a school in the US capital in which the only composers the students ever heard of are LvB and the Venetian monk. The story was […]