The University of Exeter has awarded a degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) to Dougie Scarfe (centre), chief executive of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
The award is for his ‘commitment to breaking down barriers in classical music’.
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The retired coductor Michael Tilson Thomas has been showing CBS’s 60 Minutes how it’s done. Enjoy. He does. The post MTT gives TV conducting lesson appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s President and CEO Jonathan Martin will retire in February after seven years at the helm. He arrived in Cinc’y from a long stint at the Dallas Symphony. In April this year […]
The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]
