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Liebste Frau Alma I have a happy ending to report You may remember me, the player in a North German orchestra who has her ass grabbed by a member of the brass section. I had […]

We hear that the Uppsala Chamber Strings has been abolished with immediate effect. The ensemble had national status and cultuvated a passionate audience in Uppsala. The last chief conductor was Rebecca Miller from the UK. […]

Message from President Kerry Walk and Chair of the Board of Trustees Judson Aaron: Today is a heartbreaking day. University of the Arts will close as of Friday June 7, 2024. We would have shared […]

Soprano Claire Rutter has given the Sunday Telegraph full details of the telephone pest who dogged her performance of Verdi’s Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral. She said: ‘People are not living in the moment and enjoying […]

We hear that the Precentor, Andy Trenier, was listed to preside and preach at Winchester Cathedral this morning but has stood down. We hear also that employment lawyers have been consulted. A long letter in […]

From my new essay in The Critic: The biggest noise to be heard in orchestral music is not the click and whirr of audience smartphones shooting TikTok clips in the slow movement. Nor is it […]

We understand that the entertaining Igudesman & Joo are about to announce their retirement from the stage at the end of next year. The violin-piano duo will have been performing together for two decades, which […]

The Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels shortly after midnight.The first prize is worth 25,000 Euros. Second and third places went to Americans – Joshua Brown (20k) and Elli Choi(17k). […]

By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s  ​ Click here to read Here’s a must-read article by Shannon Vittoria from the Met Museum’s Perspectives series about how women emerged as active creators of art […]

Death and the Kings Horseman – Digital Theatre Click here to subscribe or rent Written by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka and inspired by a true story, this stunning play celebrates a community striving to uphold its […]