Today’s 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner is being religiously observed in his hometown Linz and nearby villages. Here’s the schedule: Midnight at the Mariendom: Bells and imported sounds 4am in the birthplace at Ansfelden: musical […]
Church sources report that Ian Keatley, director of music at Southwark Cathedral, has collapsed and died while on holiday. Ian was 42. No further details have been communicated. The Ulster Society of Organists and Choirmasters […]
Friends have reported that the quietly influential minimalist composer Tom Johnson died this morning at the age of 85. As critic for the Village Voice in the 1970s, he tracked the rise of Glass-Reich type […]