The US-Italian conductor Carlos Ponti jr. has converted to Orthodox Christianity in order to marry Mariam Sharmanashvili, a zumba teacher, in Tbilisi. Ponti, 56, and Sharmanashvili, 37, performed a ritual Georgian dance at the nuptials. […]
A day before playing both Ravel concertos in one concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yuja Wang has pulled out on grounds of ill-health. The concert, at Canada’s Festival de Lanaudière, had been […]
The American mathematician and musical satirist died today at home in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 97. He won renown in the early 1960s for songs that lampooned the US military, the Pope, the […]
From Sky News: A disgruntled bishop in a dressing gown has interrupted a church concert in London – telling singers to stop their “terrible racket” and “leave his house”. The City Academy Voices choir was […]
The emonent Spanish pianist Joaquin Soriano, who died yesterday, was professor at the Madrid Conservatory for almost half a century. He enjoyed an international career as recitalist, teacher and jury member. The post Spain laments […]
The legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, who is 90, is the mourning of her son, the composer Ziad Rahbani. Ziad, who was 69, composed his first song for his mother when he was 17. His best-known […]
The family of Joe Corbett have posted sad news of his death: “It is with deep sorrow and heartbreak that we announce the peaceful passing of our beloved Joe Corbett (Opera Singer), in London after […]
We have received depressing reports of the shrunken state of the Teatro Colon, South America’s foremost opera house. Next season contains just six operas, the following season five. The conductors – Beatrice Venezi and Zoe […]
It’s ‘the only way I can travel without feeling guilty,’ says gamba player Sarah Small. From a BBC News report: A musician has completed a 10-week cycling tour of Great Britain with her beloved viola […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … The contrast flows back and forth, almost to the point of incoherence. It takes a truly great composer to throw up his hands and say, I don’t […]
