Composer’s widow weds
The Israeli composer Ella Sheriff, widow of Noam Sheriff who died six years ago, got married in a private New York ceremony yesterday to Noam Ziv, from Jerusalem. Our blessings to the happy couple. Ella […]
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Forty Years of Inspiring Musicians: Carol Main MBE FRC will step back from her role as Director of Live Music Now Scotland – a post she has held since the founding of this organisation in 1984
Twogether Duo and Carol Main Live Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their careers with professional performance and training opportunities, making live music accessible […]
Salzburg artistic director is banned from local cafe
The persistent journalist Axel Brüggemann has obtained confirmation of long-running rumours that the artistic director of the Salzburg Festival Markus Hinterhäuser has been blacklisted by the Cafe Bazar, a popular watering hole. Ours not to […]
Death of Grove editor, 58
The Society for American Music has announced the death of Charles Hiroshi Garrett, general editor of the 2013 second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music. He was a member of the faculty of […]
Remember New York City Opera?
It died, for lack of funds and an excess of interference by individual board members. The death last week of Mary Sharp Cronson reminded one of our readers that she was the force behind the […]
BeethovenFest to discuss colonialism, exploitation and LGBTQ+
The Bonn festival, in October, has booked Belgium’s B’Rock Orchestra to contextualise the first symphony: The B’Rock Orchestra feels like an integral part of society and wants to contribute to a meaningful discussion. In its […]
Finn star: I’ll do Vaughan Williams in France
From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the Granada Festival: ‘A personal passion of mine is the music of Vaughan Williams, the great English composer, which is not really played anywhere. So we shall be […]
Yuja Wang: Conducting is ‘like doing it with the condom off’
Never lost for an eye-catching line, the pianist concludes a dreary interview in the Telegraph with this going-home gift: I ask Wang about her future career goals and she suggests she’d like to do more […]
Beethoven abused at Paris Olympic preview
For lack of taste and talent you would be hard pressed to find an act duller and more banal than this official state presentation by veteran pop persona Arielle Dombasle. What were they thinking? The […]
The Music of Milica Djordjević
Bavarian Radio’s series Musica Viva always seems to exude a sense of discovery, of freshness, of hope that contemporary music that matters is alive and well: we can look back, for example, to the music […]
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