Dear Alma, My student just won’t practice
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a graduate student and teach lessons as a part of my scholarship. One of my students just doesn’t practice. It’s incredibly obvious. Then she gives me […]
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Oregon appoints swift-change UK chief
The Eugene Symphony has named Alex Prior as its music director, starting in October. Prior, 32, previously had one term as music director in Edmonton, Canada, and another in Erfurt, Germany. He said: ‘I was […]
Opera America picks outsted KenmCen chief
Deborah Rutter, sacked as president of the Kennedy Center by Trumpist board, has been named keynote speaker for Opera America’s 2025 conference in Miami. Opera America, based in New York, is the national forum and […]
Musical Moves: Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, becomes director of audiences & impact at The Grange Festival
Rebecca Meltzer, Bertie Baigent & Guy Verrall-Withers with the Waterperry Opera Festival team in 2024 The arts administration world is relatively compact, which means that whenever someone moves there is a domino effect. The Grange […]
Ravel from Minnesota: Stan strikes again!
Ravel celebrations continue with this lovely disc from Stanisław Skrowaczewski’s Minnesota years, original 1974 analogue Vox recordings. newly remastered from the original tapes. The best compliment I can give the remastering (Andrew Walton) is that […]
Tried a Dance with the Devil?
Dvořák wrote The Devil and Kate just before Rusalka at the height of his powers as an orchestral composer and at a period of keen interest in fairytale and mythological themes. There is much purely instrumental music partly justified […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Woods – W. H. Auden: An Optical Poem
W. H. Auden Click here to watch “The trees encountered on a country stroll / Reveal a lot about a country’s soul.” On February 23, 1956, W.H. Auden delivered a poetry reading at The […]
Kennedy Center symphony audience boos JD Vance and wife
Several audeience members have told us that US vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha were booed as they took seats last night at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. One person […]
Salome, the Dada opera
The world premiere of Salome by Gerald Barry will take place tomorrow in Magdeburg, Germany. Here’s some blurb: Salome – wait! That’s an opera by Richard Strauss! Yes, and one by Antoine Mariotte, plus incidental […]
A Canadian composer is deported from the US
Message from Andrew Balfour, a Cree composer from Winnipeg: Yesterday is a day I’d rather forget. Even with what I thought was proper paperwork, I was denied entry in US. So, they put you in […]
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