classical music

Christie’s London have a couple of interesting Wagner lots coming up next month. The first draft of the Tannhäuser libretto is expected to make six figures. Also under the hammer is a draft fragment for […]

Fred Szczepanski was preparing to retire as music director of  St. Francis Catholic Church in Traverse City, Michigan, when a new priest discovered he had entered a same-sex marriage with his partner four years ago. […]

The Australian conductor Jessica Cottis followed her agent Naomi Ives last year when Ives quit IMG to join K D Schmid. Cottis has now walked out on Ives to rejoin IMG. It’s the season of […]

We gather that Juilliard has summarily fired a professor of violin after he was caught in what is said to be ‘a lewd act’. Apart from two witnesses who opened the door of his studio […]

The French army choir did us proud during Keir Starmer’s Armistice Day visit to Paris.   “God save the King” by the choir of the French Army under the Arc de Triomphe Goosebumps, chair de […]

The Dover Quartet, based at Curtis, just saw violist Julianne Lee walk out after less than a year, reverting to her old orchestra job. Now violinist Joel Link, ‘cannot perform due to unforeseen circumstances’. He’s […]

Subscribers have been informed that the US violinist has pulled out of planned performances of the Brahms concerto in January. No reason has been given. Maxim Vengerov will jump in.     The post Just […]