classical music

This week’s guest on David Krauss’s popular podcast is Alexa Tarantino, the first female full-time member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. ‘Every day’s a pinch-me moment,’ she says. Alexa started early, performing with […]

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The Prague composer Viktor Ullmann was incarcerated by the Nazis in the Theresiendstadt concentration camp before being sent to be killed in Auschwitz in October 1944. Ullmann is mostly remembered for his concentration camp opera, […]

The Toronto Symphony is planning a Europe tour next winter with conductor Gustavo Gimeno. It has dates in Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Austria. Nothing in the UK. Why not? Because London’s main […]

From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I run a summer concert series in a mid-sized city. We do pretty well, and have managed to be financially stable. The problem is that a person who grew […]

Ballet de Lyon at Sadler’s Wells – Merce Cunningham 2025.iii.21 What are we watching here? Are these movements just movements? Or is this a poetic dance drama with metaphors? Those opposite possibiljities – present in […]

We’re hearing that the South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho has dumped his boutique management at Primo Arts and signed with K D Schmid, to be managed mostly from London. The move, which has yet to […]

The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has issued a statement explaining why he is going ahead today with a US tour while others may be pulling out. He says: It’s with mixed emotions that I […]

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has picked two budding conductor fellows for next season, to be guided by principal conductor Edward Gardner. Wilson Ng is from Hong Kong, working mostly in South Korea. Nefeli Chadouli, who […]