For those who think with the heart
There has been a muted response to the death this week of the eminent soprano Edith Mathis, Mozart star of the Karajan years at the Vienna Opera and, later on, one of the most exquisite […]
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A Star Wars orchestra star has died at 93
The brilliant trombonist Denis Wick, a star in the London Symphony Orchestra’s swagger brass section, died yesterday at the age of 93, his family has reported. Denis joined the LSO as principal trombone in 1957 […]
An accusation against Deborah Rutter’s husband
Eighteen years after the alleged event, Vanessa Fralick – assistant principal trombone of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra – has accused her former teacher Peter Ellefson of pestering her for sex. Ellefson has been professor at […]
James Conlon quits LA Opera
The music director has declared he’s had enough after two decades in which the company has stumbled from Placido Domingo sex-pest charges to its present cancellation of new work. No-one can fault Conlon for resigning […]
Manchester Collective at Southbank Centre
Hidden Mechanisms: Leith, Werner, Miller, Mustonen Manchester Collective. 4pm, Purcell Room, 09.02.2025 Oliver Leith The big house (2021) Héloïse Werner Hidden Mechanisms (2025, London Premiere) Cassandra Miller Leaving (2011) Olli Mustonen Piano Quintet (2014) Manchester Collective has a […]
The Buffalo Philharmonic launches their own label with 3 World Premier Recordings
What started out as an album presenting 4 world premiers commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, turned out to be just 3, plus a regretfully superfluous recording of Kenneth Fuchs’ reorchestration of his Point of […]
Letter from Florida: It is hard to imagine any orchestra getting closer to playing as one, though, than The Cleveland Orchestra
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole – Stephane Deneve, Maria Duenas, The Cleveland Orchestra – Arsht Center, Miami Dvorak: Symphony No.8, Bizet: Suite from L’Arlesienne (compiled by Stephane Deneve), Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Maria Duenas, Cleveland Orchestra, Stephane Deneve; Adrienne Arsht […]
Sounds of Blossom: Spring celebrations at Kew fuse blossom and new music
The Sounds of Blossom festival of music and nature is returning to Kew Gardens once again in collaboration with the Royal College of Music (RCM). From 15 March to 6 April 2025, visitors to Kew will […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Wedding Band – Stratford Festival
Wedding Band:A Love/Hate Story in Black and White – Stratford Festival Click here to subscribe or free trial Alice Childress, American novelist, playwright, and actress, born in 1916, is the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays […]
Orch-ward: Belgians pick a German chief
The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra has chosen Marc Albrecht as its next chief conductor. Albrecht, 61, is from Hannover, where his father was GMD for 30 years. Marc lives mostly in Holland. He succeeds the Hong […]
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