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The influential California viola player Kay Pech has died, aged 87. Kay was principal violist of the Disneyland Orchestra for 43 years. As a violinist, she was concertmaster of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra in […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The fashion these days is to remix the 16 Beethoven quartets, selecting one from each period — early, middle and late — in concert and record cycles. It […]

Handel’s Theodora – Royal Opera Click here to subscribe I’m recommending this production of Handel’s  own favorite of all his oratorios with some trepidation because the director, not my favourite, has transposed the action from […]

Local hire Michael Gassmann is leaving the fest after four years, it has been announced in Bonn. His successor is to be Torger Nelson, who used to work at Washington National Opera and at the […]

 Ella in Berlin I fancied hearing a bit of Ella Fitzgerald  this afternoon and what I turned up on YouTube was so wonderful that I had to share it with you. Here she is, live […]

Rattled by the dismemberment of St John’s Voices at St John’s College, the University of Cambridge has created and inter-collegial Choral Foundation Scheme – ‘a one-year training programme which will equip students who have had […]

For the first time since 2019 the Oakland Symphony will begin its new season with a Music Director on the podium. The inaugural concert of Kedrick Armstrong is this coming Friday (October 18) at The […]

Message received: San Francisco Opera announces the release of “Eun Sun Kim: A Journey Into Lohengrin,” an hour-long film taking viewers behind the scenes during the weeks of rehearsal leading up to the opening of […]

Jews will go to synagogues tonight with heavy hearts. No year has been harder in living memory. No answers are expected with confidence. Here are some points of musical contemplation. The post Music for a […]

The violinist Joshua Bell has been named principal guest conductor of the New Jersey Symphony, starting a year from now. He will appear one weekend each season.   photo: Chris Lee/NY Philharmonic The post Jersey […]