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In Washington, is no-one safe? Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was fired last night by email after ten years in the job. She was the first woman in the post. The email said: ‘Carla, On […]

Our resident reviewer experiences Claus Guth’s production of the Richard Strauss opera: The new Met Salome and Salomettes by Alastair Macaulay Since the great virtues of the new Metropolitan Opera production of Richard Strauss’s Salome” […]

The Scottish Institute of Theatre, Dance, Film and Television has shut down overnight, leaving students unsure if they can graduate. The Institute left Edinburgh last year, moving into a former tax office in Livingston. Its […]

Message received from Konserthuset Stockholm: Due to health reasons, Vikingur Olàfsson has been forced to cancel the piano recital the 11th of May at 3 pm – 5 pm. He will be replaced by Denis […]

They have just posted a Bruckner piece conducted by Choir Director Jonathan Sells. See for yourselves. The post How the Monteverdi Choir sounds without Gardiner appeared first on Slippedisc.

Prospective students at the Newark School of Violin Making have been told that the present year’s intake will be the last. There will be no new intake to Musical Instrument Crafts for the next two […]

From Joseph Horowitz’s survey of the Met’s present tribulations in the New York Review of Books: Of the Met’s earliest Aida broadcasts, the most esteemed (it is readily available on youtube) was aired on February […]

With Bluebeard’s Castle, Bartók broke with tradition and concentrated the drama into a single act lasting barely an hour. In this powerful and unsettling score, each door Judith opens reveals new worlds of sound, sometimes lush […]

The Helsinki Philharmonic chief Jukka-Pekka Saraste has lef his London management Maestro Arts to join Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm of Vienna for worldwide general management. Saraste, 69, has a year to run on his […]

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed the 2011 Tchaikovsky winner Itamar Zorman to be associate professor of violin. No first prize was awarded in 2011. Zorman shared joint second with the Russian Sergei […]