We hear that Stephen Rose, former head of violin studies, has quit the sinking Cleveland Institute of Music. We have not yet seen his resignation letter, but he’s at least the sixth faculty member to resign this year over the antics of an administration that seems barely functional.
Rose has been principal second violin of the Cleveland Orchestra since 2001.
UPDATE: Panic buttons.
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From the Busoni Piano Competition: It is with great regret that we receive the news of the passing of the great Alfred Brendel. Peter Paul Kainrath, artistic director, speaks for everyone at the Busoni-Mahler Foundation […]
Putting San Francisco far behind him, the Finn is plunging into Nietzsche and Strauss on the Hamburg docks. The post Esa-Pekka Salonen gets out beyond the Bay appeared first on Slippedisc.
This is a tour of the new Arts of Africa galleries at the Met, given by Alisa LaGamma, Curator for African Art, and assistant curator Jenny Peruski, with special guests Manthia Diawara and Angélique Kidjo. In this new incarnation, the Arts of Africa galleries foreground […]
