Adam keeps his job past 80
The Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer turned 75 this week. By way of a birthday present, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker renewed his contract as chief conductor by five more years, to 2023. Adam is the elder brother […]
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Next week’s anti-antisemitism concert
The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie has just released artist details: Against Silence. Against Anti-Semitism Mon, 16 September 2024, 20:00, Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall Solidarity concert featuring Igor Levit (piano), Malakoff Kowalski (piano), Johanna Summer (piano), Alan Gilbert (violin), […]
Paris Olympics star records her cancer struggle
The mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti was seen by millions singing in the rain a few weeks ago at the opening of the Paris Olympics. Now she is getting personal about her prolonged struggle with cancer. I […]
Dear Alma, Can you make sense of the Berlin Philharmonic?
Our agony aunt has freelanced in the Berlin Phil and knows the situation from the inside. Dear Alma, I am a young musician trying to get a foothold on a career. I am still in […]
Death of America’s youngest concertmaster
Charles Haupt was barely shaving when the San Antonio Symphony signed him as concertmaster back in the day. Lukas Foss swooped in 1966 to bring him to the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he served for 37 […]
Death of the original Euro star
She was half-French, half-Italian, spoke six languages and sang in twice as many. The mega-hits of Caterina Valente, who has died in Switzerland at 93, came mostly in the 1950s. She made her breakthrough in […]
Bats in the Belfry in Lille?
Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
Austrian mezzo wins bubbly Wigmore contest
Anja Mittermüller was named First Prize winner last night the 2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. She’s 21. Just about old enough to accept a drink from the sponsor. The post Austrian mezzo wins bubbly […]
Berlin Phil assistant baton gets world management
Swiss based Artists Management Company has signed the Berlin Philharmonic’s assistant conductor Christian Blex. Blex, 31, has come up through the Siemens Conductors Scholarship of the Karajan Academy. The post Berlin Phil assistant baton gets […]
Why give $20 million to Juilliard?
A pair of public-minded investors, John and Jody Arnhold, have given $15m to support Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise program and $5m more for jazz. Their hope is that it will ‘bring further vibrancy to a school […]
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