This may save a lot of rehearsal time. From today’s programme release: When the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell came across Kassandra, a 1983 novella by the East German author Christa Wolf, his initial idea was to […]
The festival published next summer’s plans this morning. The eye-catcher is an attempt by Peter Sellars to combine Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung with the finale of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, both written in 1909. […]
This is interesting. When the Bundesjugendorchestertours the UK in January it will be looking for ways to re-engage with British musicians who suffered the loss of the Erasmus programme after Brexit. Read this: The Bundesjugendorchester […]
The 2025 Grawemeyer music composition award, worth US$100,000, has gone to a Londoner, Christian Mason, for his work Invisible Threads. The piece, lasting 70 minutes, employs ‘a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encourages […]
The maestro has given the first of his pre-New Year’s Day Vienna concert interviews. Sample quote on woke and cancel culture: ‘This is something I absolutely reject. Nothing must be erased, on the contrary, all […]
Message received: On 1 May 2025, Axel Hiller will succeed Florian Wiegand as the director of the Concert and Media department. “It is a great joy for me to join Markus Hinterhäuser in determining the […]
Message from the artistic director of the Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of China: On Nov. 29, Prof. Dr. Martin Fischer-Dieskau collaborated with the WFSC for a special commemorative concert, conducting the Harbin Symphony Orchestra. The special […]
The Yale Symphony Orchestra is looking for a music director after William Boughton ends his five-year stint in April. Boughton, 75, previously led the New Haven Symphony for a decade. Anyone applying to Yale will […]
WIN: Matias Tarnopolsky played hardball in compensation negotiations when the NY Phil came after him in the summer. That’s why it has taken four months to make the appointment. He got what he wanted, or […]
Described as “a journey through layers and roots in the pursuit of a revelatory vision“, classical guitarist Simon Thacker’s new disc, Songs of the Roma, (released this week on Slap the Moon Records) draws on […]
