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W. H. Auden Click here to watch “The trees encountered on a country stroll / Reveal a lot about a country’s soul.” ​ On February 23, 1956, W.H. Auden  delivered a poetry reading at The […]

Several audeience members have told us that US vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha were booed as they took seats last night at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. One person […]

The world premiere of Salome by Gerald Barry will take place tomorrow in Magdeburg, Germany. Here’s some blurb: Salome – wait! That’s an opera by Richard Strauss! Yes, and one by Antoine Mariotte, plus incidental […]

Message from Andrew Balfour, a Cree composer from Winnipeg: Yesterday is a day I’d rather forget. Even with what I thought was proper paperwork, I was denied entry in US. So, they put you in […]

press release: Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the highly-anticipated The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, created by Kennedy Center’s first Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. The Grammy Award®-winning opera, which follows the life of […]

The orchestra, with music director Andris Nelsons, has added Samuel Andonian and Arianna Brusubardis Grace to its violin section. Both are local youngesters. Caleb Quillen (pictured) of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra succeeds Ed Barker as […]

Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar today named the Australian Daniel Carter as their next music director, from September this year. He is presently GMD at Landestheater Coburg. He is not to be confused with fellow-Aussie […]

Ushers were sent out with these signs at last night’s CBSO concert of Dvorak Cello Concerto and Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances. It looks like the CBSO’s chief exec Emma Stenning has been forced to back down […]

We have received this message from the eminent violinist: Die Nachricht ist gleichzeitig erwartet und erschütternd traurig. Sofia bedeutete mir enorm viel -sie war (und das wird so bleiben) eine enorme Unterstützung auf meinem Lebensweg. […]

The Monteverdi Choir and soloists will open the Edinburgh Festival with John Tavener’s eight-hour choral epic, The Veil of The Temple. The choir will be conducted by its new director, the British-Swiss baritone Jonathan Sells […]