Something great in C major

The Queen of Motown is heading for Manchester this summer. She will perform in the Co-op Live Arena, backed by the Halle Orchestra, England’s second-oldest symphonic ensemble. The tour is titled Diana Ross: A Symphonic […]

Professor Robert Eschbach has some fresh insights for us about the recently auctioned Stradivarius violin that once belonged the the formidable Joseph Joachim.   Joseph Joachim was the grandson of the internationally prominent wool merchant […]

The death was made known today of the long-serving Chief Conductor of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimír Válek. He was 89 years old. Founder of the Dvořák Chamber Orchestra in 1970, Valek was in […]