Some part of me wishes this was fiction. Or irony. Press release: Derrick Gee is the Elbphilharmonie’s new Creator in Residence Hamburg, 24 September 2024: The new Creator in Residence at the Elbphilharmonie is […]
Much fuss is being made around Jeanine Tessori’s ‘Grounded’ which launched the Met’s season with a gala premiere last night, the first woman composer to occupy the first-night slot. The opera is a cut-down version […]
Kwamé Ryan, music director of the Charlotte Symphony, says he owes it all to Cbeebies: … Whenever I hear people refer to orchestral music as arcane or incompatible with young ears, it occurs to me […]
The French conductor got a rude awakening at her season opener from Atlanta critic Mark Gresham: In Mahler’s first symphony, he writes, ‘we got a performance that was mostly serviceable, but not did not rise […]
The next chief conductor of the Mainz Philharmonic State Orchestra and GMD of the Mainz State Theatre is to be Gabriel Venzago. Presently with Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, the young Venzago, 34, is the son of […]
The phenomenal saxophonist and composer Benny Golson died this weekend in Manhattan. He played himself in the Steven Spielberg movie The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks. His compositions include “I Remember Clifford”, “Blues March”, “Stablemates”, “Whisper […]
The Bolshoi press service has announced the death of baritone Vladislav Verestnikov, one of its long-serving stalwarts. Originally from Kharkiv, he was married to fellow-Ukrainian soprano Lyudmila Sergienko. The post Bolshoi star dies, 77 appeared […]
The press statement is unusually succinct: ‘Local 161-710, American Federation of Musicians announced today that the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) have unanimously voted to authorize a strike against their employer, the John […]
Until the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed ion November 1918, the port of Trieste on the Adriatic was its only outlet to the sea. Now, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra has re-established a post-imperial residency. Italy’s ambassador to […]
The Cleveland Institute of Music is doing all it can to stop unhappy staffers from joining a union. It’s getting heated out there. First up is board member Bonnie Cook: Next, here’s a round-robin letter […]
