From an update to The Bishop’s Review at the long-troubled Winchester Cathedral: Despite a considerable spend last year, resulting in increased coverage and readership, no recruitment of boy choristers resulted. Canon Andrew is, therefore, heading […]
The capital of Burgundy is hoping to end five years of turmoil and stop-gap managers with the appointment today of Antonella Zedda as director of its opera house. Zedda is a former production director at […]
Tonight will be the last performance of Tadaaki Otaka as conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He was principal conductor from 1987 to 1995 and conductor laureate since then. Otaka, 77, remains Music […]
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has appointed Amadea Dazeley-Gaist as its principal horn. She has been hired straight out of the student roll at the Royal College of Music. In a further recruitment, Cillian Ó […]
This selfie somehow struck me as seminal. It shows the pianist Andre Gugnin in the front window of Universal Music with an LP of his excellent Shostakovich preludes recording on the boutique label Hyperion. Gugnin […]
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras have rolled out their new season with strong replacements for sacked founder Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leads the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique for […]
The outgoing music director has added his parent to the lineup of his farewell gala. From the press release: Acclaimed Venezuelan trombonist Oscar Dudamel – father of world-renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel – perform a bold […]
The Colorado Springs Philharmonic has recruited the French conductor Chloé Dufresne as its music director from October, after a two-year vacancy in the role. Chloe, 34, is from Montpellier. She is artistic director of the […]
Jan Younghusband (Photo: BYO) At a time of challenge in arts funding, British Youth Opera (BYO) has bravely soldiered on, providing support, training and opportunity for young singers fresh out of college. BYO’s recent Summer […]
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte, the most brilliant and most mysterious member of the Bronte family, was born on July 30th, 207 years ago today. She died in 1848, aged 30, a year after the publication […]
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