Professor Tim Jackson has won his defamation case against the University of North Texas, which has agreed to reinstate him as editor of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies and pay him almost three-quarters of a […]
Obituary received: Dinah Bryant passed away on June 4th in Brussels, where she shared more than 40 years of life and music with her devoted husband, pianist Daniel Blumenthal. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September […]
Elgar – Dinis Sousa, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Queen Elizabeth Hall Elgar: In the South, Sea Pictures, Enigma Variations; Frances Gregory, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Dinis Sousa; Queen Elizabeth HallReviewed […]
Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a […]
Principal trumpet Esteban Batallán has been telling Dennis Polkow why he left the Chicago Symphony for Philadelphia last year… and came back six months later. Batallán: ‘Somehow, I wanted to make sure I had a […]
You may read below a statement by the International Double Reed Society’s president Jacqueline Wilson, claiming that its directors and personnel have received death threats over a policy to restrict certain IDRS grants to ‘under-represented’ […]
David Radzynski writes: ‘Excited to share that I’ve been appointed concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester!’ Radzynski, previously concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic, stayed less than two years in Cleveland. The NDR, with Alan Gilbert […]
From a forthright interview by Jeffrey Arlo Brown with violinist Michael Barenboim for VAN magazine: Would you describe yourself as an anti-Zionist? I definitely don’t see the point in trying to maintain this ideology […]
The immersive pianist just dived in again. Here’s some PR guff: Yuja is partnering with global leaders in art and immersive technology on a virtual reality project pushing the boundaries of the concert experience. Premiering […]
Stephen Goist (pic) and Katherine Spencer have been named principal viola and clarinet of the Handel and Haydn Orchestra. Goist is a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Katherine was principal clarinet at the […]
