classical music

Maya Lasker-Wallfisch tells this story about her centenarian mother’s birthday this week: ‘It was a private visit from the King. She´s also very fond of Stephen Fry. He is a great friend. I am delighted […]

It’s the third time the University of Michigan has been forced to fire a music professor for meddling with students. Countertenor David Daniels faced accusations from 20 students, was fired and was later jailed for […]

The Oregon Symphony has just told us that CEO Isaac Thompson will be leaving to become president of his hometown orchestra in Minnesota. He starts there in October. Oregon will be run by an interim […]

The death has been made known of Oswald Lehnert, music director of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra for 25 years, 1971-1995. He also served as professor of violin at the Univrsity of Colorado. Wisconsin born, he […]

The Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili will play the Sibelius concerto at the opening concert of the BBC Proms series tonight. Ariane Todes asks her the unanswerable question: So did you ever think you might give […]

The season-opener at Detroit Opera – Puccini’s Golden Gil of the West – has been cancelled after the company disclosed substantial losses. The Free Press reports: From fiscal year 2023 to 2024, contributions fell $1,889,226, […]

The yellow label has recruited its first Chinese composer, it was announced today. The new DG artist is Yu-Peng Chen, 41, a gaming composer known as ‘Archon’ (master) with 1.5 billion audio streams to his […]

This week’s review of London performances by our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: Everything about Richard Strauss’s opera “Salome” is specific, atmospheric, descriptive. We know where in the East we are, at what point in […]

The composer was a man of his times, private and even prudish about his sexual arrangements. While he dealt with homosexual themes in several operas, he never expressed homoeroticism or encouraged nudity on stage. The […]

One of our Moscow moles attended Valery Gergiev’s new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s opera, Semyon Kotko. He was horrified to see propaganda slides beamed up onto the curtain, justifying Putin’s Ukraine war. The slides were […]