The Baltimore Chamber Orchestra has chosen Robert Moody (pic) as its Music Director. He is also MD of the Memphis Symphony, where he suffered a recent bereavement. Up the road, Maryland’s Columbia Orchestra has chosen […]
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – Adam Temple-Smith, Michael Mofidian – The Grange Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress; Adam Temple-Smith, Alexandra Oomens, Michael Mofidian, Rosie Aldridge, director: Antony McDonald, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Tom […]
Message from Jeremy Eichler: … After 18 years at the Boston Globe, I am moving on from my position and joining the faculty of Tufts University, where I’ll be taking up a newly created professorship […]
Members of the orchestra has taken to wearing blue ribbons at major events, such as this weekend’s Waldbühne concert. The blue ribbon (see below) signifies support for the return of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian […]
Scientists in Austria have reconstructed what Mozart might have looked like from the structure of his skull. He looks like a disaffected member of a short-life boy bank The post If this is Mozart, was […]
The family of Nigel Perrin has shared news of his death, aged 76. In addition to being a member of the King’s Singers, he was founder and director of the Bath Bach Choir and Bach […]
The international Yehudi Menuhin festival in Gstaad has consigned its future to the violinist Daniel Hope. The appointment of the new director will be announced tomorrow. Details here. Hope, 50, grew up Yehudi Menuhin’s knee […]
Strauss’s Die Fledermaus in rehearsal with Olivia Singleton (Adele), Ashley Mercer (Frank), Meliza Metzger (Ida) – St Paul’s Opera On 4 July 2024, my local opera company St Paul’s Opera debuts their 2024 main production, […]
The Opus Klassik awards are out this morning. Unsurprisingly, the conductor of the year is the one with the most big jobs: Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Chicago. Instrumental winners are Isabelle Faust (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) […]
I recently wrote an organ chorale prelude for William Whitehead’s Orgelbüchlein Project which is completing Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, a set of chorale preludes for the church’s year which Bach planned out and started but never finished. […]
