LA Phil mourns trombone, 78
Herbert (Sonny) Ausman, second trombonist in the LA Phil for 45 years, has died at the age of 78. His colleague, Ralph Sauer, writes: Herbert (“Sonny”) Medlar Ausman III passed away yesterday, just a few […]
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Barenboim drops in on Thomas Mann
The West-Eastern Diwan orchestra performed last night with Daniel Barenboim in Lübeck, birthplace of the Nobel-winning German author. The concert’s soloist was Lang Lang. Questions are being raised about the orchestra’s purported neutrality after Barenboim’s […]
Horrible Hapsburgs: History in a bunker
The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family. Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding […]
Philharmonia finds new venue at end of Victoria line
The orchestra has established a residency in a refurbished cinema in … Walthamstow, at the eastern end of the Underground. The district’s only previous music connection was the town hall, which was once used for […]
The festival that lost its coverage
It’s August. There are daily review and reports from Salzburg, Bayreuth, the BBC Proms, Edinburgh…. even Schleswig-Holstein. What’s missing? Verbier. Despite attracting big-name performers and high-worth audiences, the Swiss mountain-tent festival has lost almost all […]
L’Itinéraire 2025! Opening concert
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Opening Recital Sonata and Fantasy Gerard de Wit (origan); Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025 Bach Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV 559. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV Anh. […]
Israel appoints first Ethiopian professor of music
The University of Tel Aviv has awarded a full professorship to Anbessa Tefra, the first Ethiopian migrant to achieve this status. Tefra was appointed senior lecturer in music at Tel Aviv ten years ago. His […]
Why is the Church so mean to its musicians?
Message from the conductor Hilary Davan Wetton: Browsing gently – as one does – through the Church Times’ “Organists required” Column, I come upon an advertisement from St Pancras Parish Church in the Euston […]
Top French audio boss is arrested for cocaine
The president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which looks after radio and TV sound archives, was has been suspended from his duties today by Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Laurent Vallet, 55, had admitted to […]
Jazz singer dies at 96, three months after her last release
Charlie Parker called her ‘the lady with the million dollar ears’. Sheila Jordan, who was white, married a member of Parker’s quintet and became a familiar figure on stage in New York’s golden years of […]
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