classical music

Message from Patrick Togher: My beautiful little Princess has left me to join her beloved Mom in Heaven. Just as she was beginning her new life in Canadian journalism, a massive seizure has taken her […]

A career-long executive at the home of Italian opera, Maria Di Freda has died of an incurable illness. Maria joined La Scala in 1973 and was promoted to personnel director in 1991. Suriving the tubulent […]

The death has been  published of Celso Garrido-Lecca, a prominent figure in choral music across the sub-continent. He was best known as a close associate of the songwriter Victor Jara in Chile up to 1973. […]

Message received: Across the last weekend in August, composer Matthew Lee Knowles and organist Katia Farn will present “For Samuel Beckett”, the longest fully notated composition ever written for the organ – this will be […]

Andrew Shulman has been having hell on Frontier: Safely aboard my Delta flight from Raleigh to LAX with my cello after having been refused boarding by Frontier, despite having bought 2 (yes, TWO) extra seats […]

Here’s the Apple top ten: 1 Sleep Max Richter 2 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf 3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Garrick Ohlsson […]

The  Austrians have cancelled a September concert by the extremist Irish rappers, who have called in their performances for the eradication  of  the Israel Defence Forces,. The group were previously banned by the Szigeti festival […]

The minimum wage for tutti players in  BBC orchestras has risen to £41,104 after players voted by a 4-1 margin to accept a new deal. Salaries will rise between 2.3 and 2.8 percent. Thias may […]