classical music

From our agony aunt:   Dear Alma, My new violin professor likes to call and text more than email to the point where he will expect me to answer if he decides to call on […]

It seems the walkout worked. Shortest strike on record? WASHINGTON—After a brief strike period, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) leadership are pleased to announce they have reached a new 18-month labor […]

Miles Davis – So What Some years ago, while moving house, I decided to limit myself to packing just one music recording per genre. For jazz, I picked Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. I still have it […]

Orchestra pit footage has turned up of Herbert von Karajan conducting Tosca at the Salzburg East Festival in March 1989, four months before he died. The camera is focused on the conductor. The tenor you […]

I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: When the British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said this week that he listened to Shostakovich if he was having a hard time, I wondered if he’d been […]

We have been informed of the death of Michael Ajzenstadt, a former Jerusalem Post journalist who became a reference point and artists’ friend at the national opera company. The cause of death has not been […]

The National Symphony Orchestra has erased the start of its season. Statement from the Kennedy Center: After months of largely collaborative and constructive labor negotiations, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) are […]