Today’s season announcement by Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie features a triple offering: The self-confessed »Elphi« fan Sir Simon Rattle is set to return three times this season – conducting Mahler’s »Resurrection Symphony« with the Bavarian Radio Symphony […]
At last night’s Proms launch Suzy Klein (pic), director of classical music on BBC Television, announced that no fewer than 25 of the Proms will be televised. None or ten will be on the main […]
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 […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "From RVW's Sancta Civitas & Bliss' The Beatitudes to Reich's The Desert Music & Birtwistle's Earth Dances, plus 19 premieres: the BBC Proms 2025")
This years BBC Proms are the first under the stewardship of Sam Jackson, controller of BBC Radio 3 who took over the Proms this year from David Pickard. Running from 18 July to 13 September, […]
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 […]
Aix en Provence Easter Festival: Ogonek, R. Strauss, Prokofiev Renaud Capuçon (violin); Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Elim Chan (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix en Provence, France, 19.04.2025 Elizabeth Ogonek All These Lighted Things […]
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 […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Warm hearted & with a twinkle in his eye: The Brook Street Band bring out the sense of enjoyment in the violin sonatas of Ipswich-based Joseph Gibbs")
