Anne-Sophie Mutter meets real life
The violinist posts: This is the view from my hotel room here in Copenhagen and a lot of noise … Recital is at 5 PM! Tour number 2 – next week is the start of […]
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Breaking: Monteverdis name Gardiner substitute for winter tour
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras have engaged the Frenchman Christophe Rousset in place of Sir John Eliot Gardiner on their next tour. Gardiner, 81, was fired after a violent incident. Rousset, 63, is a much-recorded […]
Two maestros with their babies
Daniele Rustioni and Dalia Stasevska meet up on a London park bench for the family-friendly Proms. Amazing how the maestro world has changed in our time. I had a little reflection on it with Simon […]
Tchaikovsky gets Browned off
The standard work on the Russian composer for the past four decades has been the four-volume study by David Brown, an English musicologist at the University of Southampton. Brown was a proponent of the narrative […]
Solti cellist retires
From the Chicago Symphony: The CSOA family congratulates CSO cello Loren Brown on his retirement. Brown joined the Orchestra under Music Director Sir Georg Solti in 1985. Across his CSO tenure, he was a soloist […]
Pro-Pal pianist gets a slot on Australia’s ABC
The anti-Israel propagandist Jayson Gillham, who caused a crisis at the Melbourne Symphony, is telling his followers: I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has shown support over the past week. Your […]
New Jersey gets a concert hall
The New Jersey Symphony, a peripatetic orchestra, has been given a 30-year lease on a new Jersey City hall with 550 seats. The venue is owned by the city and the gift comes at a […]
Chicago mourns its music seller
The violist Lee Newcomer, owner of Performer’s Music over four decades, has died, his friends report. His store was the best meeting place for musicians in the city. During Covid, Lee raised $40k in donations […]
TAR cellist is cast again
The UK-German cellist Sophie Kauer, who gave a credible performance of the Elgar concerto in the Todd Fields film Tar, has landed another screen role. Sophie will play one of two sisters in Jaclyn Bethany’s […]
Melbourne heads for the bunkers
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has erased the names of board members from its website, along with all contact details, as an unnamed external investigator goes to work examining the organisation’s handling of a pro-Palestine pianist. […]
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