classical music

The Juilliard School of Music has launched a half-billion fundraising drive to enable it to scrap tuition fees for all students. It has already received $180 million in pledges. School president Damian Woetzel told the […]

The Washington Examiner reports that next Tuesday’s celebration of President Trump’s 100 days has been cancelled due to ‘contract violations.’ It seems the Kennedy Center’s Director of Campus Planning and Rentals has been fired. The […]

The CBSO music director Kazuki Yamada, who last renewed his contract for just two years, signed on this morning as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He starts work in September […]

Ella Fitzgerald What is it about Ella’s voice that makes it not only unique, but compelling? She was born April 25th 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, 108 years ago  today, and died June 15th, 1996, […]

Wagner’s epic score for Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) brilliantly captures the vast scale of the story, from the stormy overture to the final scene of tragedy and redemption. Wagner himself considered this opera as marking the real beginning […]

The orchestra will lay Stolpersteine on May 10 in front of the Philharmonie in memory of four Jewish musicians who were evicted by the Nazis and forced to emigrate. The four were: first concertmaster Szymon […]

Kent Nagano has been named principal artistic partner of the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma. Dinis Sousa (pic) has been promoted to music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead-Newcastle. The post Two maestro moves: […]

A couple of weeks after his 77th birthday, the San Francisco-based Garrick Ohlsson was quietly going about his business when a message dropped from the Philadelphia Orchestra. Yefim Bronfman had cancelled this coming weekend of […]