It seems the walkout worked. Shortest strike on record? WASHINGTON—After a brief strike period, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) leadership are pleased to announce they have reached a new 18-month labor […]
From the desk of PR2 agency in Dresden, Germany: Dresden receives federal funding for the construction of a Richard Wagner Academy and the establishment of an international center of excellence for Romantic orchestral and opera […]
Miles Davis – So What Some years ago, while moving house, I decided to limit myself to packing just one music recording per genre. For jazz, I picked Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. I still have it […]
Orchestra pit footage has turned up of Herbert von Karajan conducting Tosca at the Salzburg East Festival in March 1989, four months before he died. The camera is focused on the conductor. The tenor you […]
I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]
Alexander Schubert: Steady State – world premiere 7 May 2024 – Zubin Kanga at National Concert Hall, Dublin (Photo: Roisin Murphy O’Sullivan) Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga is known for both his championing of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: When the British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said this week that he listened to Shostakovich if he was having a hard time, I wondered if he’d been […]
We have been informed of the death of Michael Ajzenstadt, a former Jerusalem Post journalist who became a reference point and artists’ friend at the national opera company. The cause of death has not been […]
The National Symphony Orchestra has erased the start of its season. Statement from the Kennedy Center: After months of largely collaborative and constructive labor negotiations, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) are […]
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Kullervo Sets Off for War(Mural, 1901, in the Old Student House, Helsinki University) Sigfúsdóttir: Oceans, Grieg: Piano Concerto; Sibelius: Kullervo; Stephen Hough, Johanna Rusanen, Tommi Hakala, Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat (YL) Male Voice Choir, Philharmonia, […]
