NY musician wages: a view from Chicago
From a correspondent: I am a retired full time chorister who worked at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from the mid-1970s until recently. When I started, I made $125/week for 13 weeks and about $4/hr […]
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Just in: ENO chairman is finally unseated
Dr Harry Brunjes, who has presided over ten years of destruction at English National Opera, is stepping down. He has resisted that move valiantly for a very long time. The good doctor may now enjoy […]
Celebrating Jommelli in style: Ian Page & The Mozartists with Fflur Wyn, Ambroisine Bré, Hugo Brady make a compelling case for this neglected music
Jommelli: a celebration – Fflur Wyn, Ambroisine Bré, Ian Page, The Mozartists at Wigmore Hall (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) Jommelli – a celebration: Fflur Wyn, Ambroisine Bré, Hugo Brady, The Mozartists, Ian Page; Wigmore HallReviewed 18 […]
The Watchman, Issue #2: On Elitism, and the Recorder in England
Contents: The Chosen: For What? by Hana Gubenko Foreign Masters: Max Volbers and Alexander von Heissen play music by foreign composers in Baroque England, by Colin Clarke The Chosen – for what? Who wouldn’t want […]
Fire and water in the library: Siren Duo in an imaginative flute and harp recital for Temple Music
Siren Duo (Claire Wickes, flute, and Tomos Xerri, harp) in Middle Temple Library. Debussy, Mozart, David Watkins, Astor Piazzolla, Adina Izarra, Toru Takemitsu, William Alwyn; Siren Duo (Claire Wickes, Tomos Xerri); Temple Music Foundation at […]
Maestro move: London agency is busier than Berlin
We hear that Elim Chan, the sought-after Hong Kong conductor, is leaving Classic Concert Management GmbH in Berlin to join Intermusica in London. No-one’s giving any reasons yet, but CCM have just three conductors on […]
Sudden death of US conductor
The composer John Mackey has reported the death of his friend, Robert Carnochan, Professor of Conducting at the University of Miami and Chair of Instrumental Performance and Director of Bands at the Frost School of […]
Union pauses Welsh opera strike
Statement by Equity, acting for the endangered chorus of Welsh National Opera: Equity members in the chorus of the Welsh National Opera will pause their first and second days of strike action, previously planned for […]
Exclusive: How the Leeds Piano Competition is rigged for equality
We’ve had our attention drawn to two paragraphs in the jury instructions, showing how female contestants receive preferential treatment. The clauses are these: 4.6 If there are two candidates with equal scores competing for one […]
Top quartet loses violist after a year
The Dover Quartet, which positioned itself ‘to take up the mantle of the Emersons’ has suffered a setback with the withdrawal of violist Julianne Lee. She has decided she prefers her old job in the […]
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