Swiss Eurovision winner gets a symphony orchestra

I very much regret the loss of Sytze Smit, campaigning editor of the excellent magazine Entr’acte. A former violinist in the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sytze relentlessly callewdout cliques and corruption in Dutch musical life. He […]

Bobby Short Live at Cafe Carlyle Bobby Short ‘invented’, perhaps ‘defined’ would be a better word, intimate cabaret for the New Yorkers of our own recent times.  Urbane, elegant, perfectly groomed, he played the songs […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, This happens every year.  Beginning of December, the principal bassoon asks where I’m gonna be for Christmas. At home, I say. Alone? he checks. When I nod he says, […]