US university shuts music department
There were 144 students registered for music at Jacnsonville University, 123 of them majors. But the private college, founded in 1934, has decided to shut down its music and theatre programs with a loss of […]
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Just in: Donors save John Schaeffer’s radio show
Message received: WNYC today announced that its “Save New Sounds” campaign to preserve the beloved 40+ year music program has reached its goal of $1.5 million, and the show will go on. The news was […]
The Japanese composer who’s better than Mozart
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Like every reviewer I love surprises, and nothing has surprised me more in a month of Easter Sundays than this delicate and brilliant pairing of Japanese and Viennese […]
Your chance to review Arts Council England
Dear … We have been asked by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) to pass this survey on to our artists and audience, both in the Hall and in the community: Arts Council England […]
Fred the Great said: I’ll get Bach to you
The Easter edition of our Alastair Macaulay Review: Charpentier and Louis XIV; Bach and Frederick the Great by Alastair Macaulay The overlaps between history and music are infinite, even though many of us listen (or […]
Dear Alma, My students won’t pay cash
From our resident agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I have ten private students, and I ask the parents to pay in cash. Most do, but there are three who don’t. I send out email reminders […]
Berlin composer, RIP
The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger, long based in Berlin, died yesterday at the age of 66. Ablinger founded and led the Ensemble Zwischentöne and was much concerned with turning speech into music. The post Berlin […]
Anja Silja: I have been on stage for 70 years
The soprano, 85 today, made her debut at 15 in Barber of Seville before being groomed by Wieland Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival. She says: No-one has sung as long as I have, not even […]
Karajan prize for two Russians
The Herbert von Karajan Prize, founbded in 2017 by his widow Eliette, is to be awarded today to the soprano Nadezhda Karyazina, making her debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival, and to Maxim Emelyanychev who […]
German Conservatoire mourns a Korean student
Message from the Musikhochschule Münster in western Germany: Musikhochschule Münstermourns YeJi Lee Our student YeJi Lee aka Celine passed away in April. She was a victim of a tragic accident in her home country of […]
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