July 29, 2025
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Yuja cancels Yannick

Yuja cancels Yannick

A day before playing both Ravel concertos in one concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yuja Wang has pulled out on grounds of ill-health. The concert, at Canada’s Festival de Lanaudière, had been […]

Tom Lehrer, RIP

Tom Lehrer, RIP

The American mathematician and musical satirist died today at home in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 97. He won renown in the early 1960s for songs that lampooned the US military, the Pope, the […]

Spain laments leading pianist, 84

Spain laments leading pianist, 84

The emonent Spanish pianist Joaquin Soriano, who died yesterday, was professor at the Madrid Conservatory for almost half a century. He enjoyed an international career as recitalist, teacher and jury member. The post Spain laments […]

Fairuz mourns composer son

Fairuz mourns composer son

The legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, who is 90, is the mourning of her son, the composer Ziad Rahbani. Ziad, who was 69, composed his first song for his mother when he was 17.  His best-known […]

Irish baritone dies in London

Irish baritone dies in London

The family of Joe Corbett have posted sad news of his death: “It is with deep sorrow and heartbreak that we announce the peaceful passing of our beloved Joe Corbett (Opera Singer), in London after […]

Colonic irritations down in BA

Colonic irritations down in BA

We have received depressing reports of the shrunken state of the Teatro Colon, South America’s foremost opera house.  Next season contains just six operas, the following season five. The conductors – Beatrice Venezi and Zoe […]