Season’s Greetings from all at Planet Hugill

The next music director of the Gran Teatre de Liceu is to be the British conductor Jonathan Nott. He succeeds Josep Pons, who has held the post for 14 years. Nott, 62, has been chief […]

The Concertgebouw’s Mahler festival has its first jump-in. Sakari Oramo has been recruited to conduct the Adagio from the 10th symphony, followed by Das Lied von der Erde, on May 18, the anniversary of Mahler’s […]

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic has thrown a farewell party for Adrian Mann, its long-serving principal double-bass. He’s not leaving, though. Adrian, whose father was the noted musicologist Alfred Mann, is still turning up for work […]