The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has appointed Wenhan Jiang as co-principal violist, taking him from the Ulster Orchestra, where he wsas principal viola. It’s the touring that excites him: ‘Wien – Hamburg – Hannover – Köln […]
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1968 with Neville Marriner as conductor, has played for most of its existence around and about, but never in town. Its venues have been Wallis Annenberg Center (Beverly […]
The New York shipping magnate Elias N. Kulukundis has donated most of his lifetime Bach family collection to the Bach Archive in Leipzig. It includes the autograph score of Johann Christian Bach’s opera Zanaida, letters […]
The musical has cancelled a two-month Washington run during the 2026 American anniversary year. Its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda said: ‘The Kennedy Center is for all of us, and it pains me deeply that they took […]
This is exactly the sort of discovery that first got me “into” Classical music. Perhaps I’d find an obscure composer on a Turnabout LP (Koželuch sings to mind on one occasion), and the search for […]
Georgia O’Keeffe died 39 years ago this week on March 6, 1986, aged 98. Called the “Mother of American Modernism”, she was the preeminent female painter of the 20th century. Starting as a watercolour artist, […]
The death has been reported of Stephen Norrell, bass trombonist of the Metropolitan Opera from 1981 to 2018. He was a faculty member of Manhattan School of Music for 47 years and teacher to many […]
A Hamburg court has ruled in favour of the gadfly website Backstage Classical, which had been subjected to a cease-and-desist injunction by the Salzburg Festival artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser. Backstage publisher Axel Brüggemann had been […]
Message received: BOSTON – The Handel and Haydn Society today announced that President & CEO David Snead will retire after nearly a decade at the helm… Snead will retire in May after the final performance […]
The Rheinische Philharmonic state orchestra in Koblenz has chosen the gifted Marzena Diakun as its next chief conductor. Marzena, 43, has been Chief Conductor of the Orquestra de la Comunidad de Madrid and of the Orchestre […]
