There is a catch, however. Culture Senator Carsten Brosda tells Backstage Classical that some of the new money mwill go on a hip-hop academy and on supporting music clubs down the Reeperbahn, where the brothels […]
Its director, Maria Rosario Jackson, resigned this morning after three years at the helm. Donald Trump promised to abolish the arts-giving agency last time. Ms Jackson just made it a whole lot easier. On leave […]
The conductor Susanna Mälkki, left high and dry when Mark Newbanks closed his agency has week, has landed at Intermusica. Her admirer Deborah Borda is one of its directors. She will be represented by Dennis […]
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The iconic opera publisher lacks the cachet it acquired in the Verdi-Puccini era, but it’s a still a force to be reckoned with. For the past 18 years it has been part of the Universal […]
There’s a famous 1947 Cartier-Bresson photograph of Igor plus Puss which we can’t reproduce. The composer was feline in so many ways. And he composed The Owl and the Pussycat, a forerunner to theLloyd Webber […]
Friends have been sharing news of the death today of Mary O’Reilly, a retired member of the violin and viola sections of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Before Rotterdam, Mary was 2nd concertmaster and principal 2nd […]
First reviews of Adams’ third concerto for piano and orchestra are warmly receptive. Gabe Meline on KQED: … After opening with cascading notes on harp and celeste reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo score, Thursday’s world premiere at […]
Today’s the day Sir Simon Rattle blows out 70 candles. Among many tributes, we have selected this beautiful article by Ariane Todes, former editor of Strad magazine, describing what it was like to play in […]
The tenor has commented on the death of Klemens Haselsteiner, son of the founder of the Erl Festival, of which he is artistic director. Klemens Haselsteiner died of an unsuspected aneurysm. Kaufmann writes: The […]
