Further to our report yesterday, the New York Philharmonic has ended its interest in Marie-Hélène Bernard of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as its next president.
The search continues.
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Vienna-based Yuki Hirano from Sapporo has been pronounced winner of the seventh Jascha Heifetz Competition, which took place in Vilnius, Lithiania. Gidon Kremer chaired the jury. The post Japanese wins Heifetz Competition appeared first on […]
Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten The two most significant composers of their generation – Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland – both died this week in, respectively, 1976 and 1990. (So did Cicero but he died […]
An urban myth tells of how, one evening, Stalin made a surprise phone call to Radio Moscow demanding the urgent delivery of a record: a Mozart piano concerto played by Maria Yudina. Unfortunately, radio companies […]
