The CBSO music director Kazuki Yamada, who last renewed his contract for just two years, signed on this morning as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He starts work in September […]
Ella Fitzgerald What is it about Ella’s voice that makes it not only unique, but compelling? She was born April 25th 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, 108 years ago today, and died June 15th, 1996, […]
Wagner’s epic score for Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) brilliantly captures the vast scale of the story, from the stormy overture to the final scene of tragedy and redemption. Wagner himself considered this opera as marking the real beginning […]
The orchestra will lay Stolpersteine on May 10 in front of the Philharmonie in memory of four Jewish musicians who were evicted by the Nazis and forced to emigrate. The four were: first concertmaster Szymon […]
Kent Nagano has been named principal artistic partner of the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma. Dinis Sousa (pic) has been promoted to music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead-Newcastle. The post Two maestro moves: […]
A couple of weeks after his 77th birthday, the San Francisco-based Garrick Ohlsson was quietly going about his business when a message dropped from the Philadelphia Orchestra. Yefim Bronfman had cancelled this coming weekend of […]
The University of Michigan has become notorious for misdemeanours in its music department. Recent mendacities include: • Voice Professor David Daniels was promoted then fired for sexually assaulting a student. • Violin Professor Stephen […]
The death has been made known of Günther Beetz, founder member of German Brass and trumpet professor at Musikhochschule Mannheim. His influence on trumpet playing was far greater than his fame. The post Top trumpet […]
With a double change of violinist and violist, David Harrington is the last survivor of the group he founded in 1973. ‘We listened to several hundred of each instrument,’ Harrington told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]
The BBC Proms schedule, made public last night, contains plenty of temptations. – There’s the Vienna Philharmonic, rarely spotted in London nowadays, playing a cheerful pair of symphonies, Bruckner 9 and Tchaikovsky Pathetique. – My […]
