The composer and pianist Jason Moran has resigned as the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz. He posted: ‘Thank you to the composers, comedians, choreographers, performance artists, skateboarders, filmmakers, authors, illustrators, dancers, photographers, sculptors, scientists, […]
The Bavarian resort of Dießen am Ammersee plans to open its composer museum on November 2. Orff died in 1982. The Carmina royalties keep rolling in. The museuem is funded by the Carl Orff foundation. […]
The city has published plans to cut subsidies to the opera and the Gewandhaus by €914,200 in 2026. That’s close to US$1 million. Overall, Leipzig in trimming its spending by around 1 percent. The biggest […]
Last night, the Russians bombed the home of the rector of the Kyiv Conservatory, also known as the National Music Academy. ‘Our home was directly hit,’ said Maksym Tymoshenko Many in Kyiv spent the night […]
The next music director of the Gran Teatre de Liceu is to be the British conductor Jonathan Nott. He succeeds Josep Pons, who has held the post for 14 years. Nott, 62, has been chief […]
We have met the super Ciaroscuro Quartet on a number of occasions, most saliently in Haydn in the first three of the Op. 76 Quartets here and in the balancing three (Nos. 4-6) here; but […]
John Savournin The intriguing game of musical dominos in arts administration continues. Earlier this year it was announced the Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, was becoming director of audiences & impact […]
A tweeter posted this list of ‘top’ 7th symphonies: 1. Beethoven 2. Bruckner 3. Mahler 4. Dvorak 5. Sibelius 6. Arnold 7. Shostakovich 8. Rubbra 9. Prokofiev 10. Glazunov I’d replace half of them. 1 […]
Rehearsal for Uprooted – Garsington Opera Youth Company On 29 July 2025, Garsington Opera Youth Company joins forces with Sinfonia Smith Square to present Uprooted, a new opera by composer Hannah Conway and librettist Hazel […]
Having emerged from the Aldeburgh Festival [see Tony’s review of the closing concerts], Snape Maltings is gearing up for this year’s Summer at Snape, a month-long celebration of music running from 26 July – 31 August […]
