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I am greatly saddened to learn that Alexander Waugh has died, far too soon, of prostate cancer. Among his many writings, he was opera critic of the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard in […]

Principal double-bass Edwin Barker will leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra next week after 48 years in the seat. His parting performance will be Serge Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto this Friday at Tanglewood. Koussevitsky, Boston’s formative […]

This message came in from Montreal: The Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) announces the departure of its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Maestro Jacques Lacombe. Over the past season, the OCM is proud to have […]

Adherents of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra awoke this morning to learn that their concert hall is going to be put out of action for several years. ‘Structural deficiencies’ have been discovered and the electronic acoustic […]

The German clarinet virtuoso Sabine Meyer is to retire from the stage next year, she has let it be known. Meyer, 65, shot to fame when Herbert von Karajan tried to force through her appointment […]

The widely acclaimed ‘father of British blues’ has died aged 90 in California, where he moved in the 1970s. His Bluesbreakers group is remembered chiefly for the couple of years in the mid-1960s when Eric […]

Murder in the Dark – Original Theatre Click here for tickets What happens when the lights go out? It’s New Year’s Eve, when a car crash on a deserted road brings famous but troubled singer Danny […]

Ten years ago, the musicians and people of Nuremburg capture the spirit of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Forty million people watched the video. It was an innocent, trusting time.     The post Remember flashmobs? […]

Francesca Fiore, cellist of the Archos Quartet, has married its first violinist Filip Jeska. We wish them great happiness. The quartet was founded in 2009 by four students at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. The post Half […]

The Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires, 80 today, became a global legend when, at a lunchtime concert in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 1998, she heard the orchestra start up a different Mozart concerto from the one […]