No other newspaper would indulge in such monstrous self-regard when a major artist has died as the Times has done for Alfred Brendel. Not even a hint of a suggestion that its successive chief music […]
It has been announced that assistant principal trumpet Mark Ridenour will retire at the end of this month. He has held that post for 31 years, since his appointment by Daniel Barenboim in 1994. photo: […]
In a talk to a Prague audience in the land of his birth, the late pianist plucks a few snippets from an elusive autobiography. ‘Towards the end of the war,’ he relates without expression, ‘there […]
The great pianist died peacefully this morning, friends have reported. He was 94. Brendel was born in a Czech town, raised in Zagreb, educated in Graz and ignored in Vienna. A rush of Mozart and […]
The death has been made known of the versatile and personable pianist Marlene Fleet, who died yesterday at the age of 83. The latter part of her career was marred by rheumatoid arthritis. Marlene gave […]
Message received overnight: Esa-Pekka Salonen concluded his tenure as SF Symphony Music Director on a transcendent note, conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony with soprano Heidi Stober, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, & the SF Symphony & Chorus. The […]
The violinist and Edinburgh Festival chief will present a six-part Froday-night series on the commercial station this summer. Titled ‘The Truth About Classical Music with Nicola Benedetti’, it echoes the festival’s theme, ‘The Truth We […]
The troubled opera house, inaugurated in 1989 as a model of modernity, is scheduled to shut for three years from 2030 because it is falling apart. The stage is on the verge of collapse. The […]
There appear to be a new release of a 2021 documentary about an orchestra of Israelis and Palestinians in which all the instruments have been retrieved from dumps or are broken almost beyond repair. The […]
Despite a strike by an Iranian missile on Israel’s premier scientific research centre, students and professors are making the most of what’s left. This is the most Israeli thing I’ve seen. Taken at the Weizmann […]
