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Kim Noltemy started work yesterday as president and CEO of the troubled Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is the fourth to take the helm since Deborah Borda left in 2017 and the working atmosphere has darkened […]

Twenty years after his lovely death, apparently by his own hand, Carlos Kleiber stands out in memory as the most accomplaished conductor the world has ever seen. Every Carlos performance – and there were not […]

At 20:00 on France Musique, Louis Langrée will conducts Les Siècles and the choir of Radio France from Montpellier in a score by Maurice Ravel, acquired last year by the Bibliothèque nationale. Chanson galante, based on […]

The London college is the latest to announce redundancies in a move which, it is said, ‘threaten(s) the future of Goldsmiths’ entire Music Department.’ A student petition announces: On the 1st of July, the Transformation […]

Sciolino Artist Management is being wound down as Marianne Sciolino heads for retirement. She founded the company in January 2005 after working on Wall Street for several years. She was married to Symphony magazine editor […]

Roman Yanchishin, solo violinist of the Bolshoi orchestra since 1980, has died in Moscow of an unnamed cause. He was designated Honoured Artist of Russia two years ago. The post Death of a Bolshoi concertmaster […]

The youth music charity Orchestras for All is moving to Sheffield under invisible orders from Arts Cancel England (ACE). It has been based for the bast decade at Cecil Sharp House in Camden Town, home […]

The Süddeutsche Zeitung headline proclaims: Viel Sex in Aix. The opera under review is Samson and Delilah. Must be due for a haircut. The headline will win prizes. The post Opera headline of the year: […]

The Stuttgart Philharmonic has let it be known that Dan Ettinger, its general music director since 2015, has left his job ‘for personal reasons’. No further comment is being made. Ettinger, 53, a former Barenboim […]

The Swedish conductor will celebrate his 97th birthday on Thursday with a performance of Bruckner’s ninth symphony. He will conduct the Bamberger Symphoniker in the first of three concerts, this one at St Florian’s Church, […]