Dvorak expert is UCLA chief
The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak. The […]
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Philadelphia gets new boss
The orchestra has confirmed Ryan Fleur as CEO, replacing Mathias Tarnopolsky, who has gone to the New York Phil. Fleur has acted in an interim capacity since Tarnopolsky left in January. Fleur has been part […]
This mezzo is a qualified surgeon
AskonasHolt have signed the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, who has a qualification in surgery and medicine from the University of Padua. Originally from Riva del Garda, she started out playing flute before taking her Hippocratic […]
Berlin composer, 91
The Akademie der Künste has announced the death of Erhard Grosskopf, a prolific composer who described himself as ‘an architect who builds a house for music’. In 1971 he created the first spatial composition Hörmusik […]
Bohemian Rhapsody producer dies
The English record producer Roy Thomas Baker died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona on Saturday. He was 78. Baker began working at Decca at age 14 and flourished in the early 1970s […]
Breakout at Winchester Cathedral
A few days after the Dean’s departure, Winchester Cathedral has accepted the loss of The Pilgrims’ School, which is to be merged with Winchester College ahead of the next academic year. This looks positive for […]
Cardiff musicians agree to lose 10 jobs
The BBC is reporting that members of the Welsh National Opera orchestra have accepted a pay deal after a year of protests. The price is the loss of 10 positions, which are curretnyl vacant. WNO […]
San Francisco principal quits for Chicago
We hear that the principal trombone audition in the Chicago Symphony has been won by Timothy Higgins of San Francisco. Higgins, originally from Houston, became principal trombone of the San Francisco Symphony by Michael Tilson […]
The harp? It’s a nothingburger
An entertaining essay in the New York Times by harpist Parker Ramsaydoes its damnedest to pluck the instrument from obscurity. … I’m a professional harpist. So is my mother. Some of my earliest exposure to […]
Scoop: Vienna prefers Shostakovich to Beethoven
A howl has gone up at Die Presse at the sight of next season’s concert listings. Chief critic by Wilhelm Sinkovicz has counted the concerts from two leading promoters and found that there is more […]
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