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The BBC has just announced an average 96 percent ticket sale for Royal Albert Hall evening concerts in the Proms season just ended. That’s up from 93 percent last year. One-third of attenders are said […]

Remember this?   If you can’t decipher it, the caption says: B&H can supply you with the new model. NO the Euphonium. Not the Girl. What were they thinking? The post When Boosey was all […]

Wakefield is sinking ever deeper into a mire of its own making. Six months after promising a full investigation into instances of bullying and various forms of abuse, it has just issued this explanation to […]

The London-based agency Inntermusica, which yesterday lost Yuja Wang, has just seen Marin Alsop walk through the door. She’s joining AskonasHolt in Europe, consolidating her main relationship with its partner Opus3. All this before breakfast […]

The Romanian soprano made a fuss over an encore sung by a Korean tenor. The public had the final say. First video of the incident has just reached Bucharest, where it’s leading the news.   […]

Cellist Frances Borowsky offered to entertain bored passengers. She tells slippedisc.com: ‘Navigating the tight spaces with my bow and instrument was no small feat! Even sitting diagonally into the throughway required that I tilt the […]

Members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus voted unanimously last night to authorize a strike. The vote polled 98.1% of eligible members. The first strike is likely to hit Verdi’s Requiem on Thursday. The orchestra […]

We hear that Sir John Eliot Gardiner has been summoned by the Orchestra Mozart to stand in for Daniele Gatti, who has fallen sick. He will conduct Beethoven’s 8th and 9th symphonies on Thursday in […]

A misconduct panel has imposed an indefinite teaching ban on Dale Wills, a former music teacher at Marlborough College. It found that Wills, 42, ‘made inappropriate comments and failed to maintain professional boundaries’. He exchanged […]

We hear that the Belgian early-music orchestra Anima Eterna has sacked its founder Jos Van Immerseel for ‘persistent aggressive behavior’. Immerseel, 78, is one of the leaders of the period-instrument movement. He founded the orchestra […]