Yesterday morning, before daybreak, the BBC launched Radio 3 Unwind, a 24/7 stream of calming classical music. It aims ‘to enhance wellbeing and help listeners escape the pressures of daily life’. The morning show, presented […]
Variety reports a gift of $2 million to the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra by House of Cards composer Jeff Beal (pictured) and his soprano wife Joan. The money is designated for new concert works by […]
Deborah Borda, acting CEO, confirmed today that principal oboe Liang Wang (pictured) and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey have been fired irrevocably over renewed allegations of historic sexual aggression. The pair were first dismissed in […]
Audiences can be there from the beginning of the “Reinhardt Era” as Ruth Reinhardt leads the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra in her first concert as Music Director Designate this weekend. She first conducted the orchestra […]
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The multi-ethnic British orchestras, which is tightening its internal procedures, has added seven new members to its board of three. They include a BBC finance director and a Labour Party activist (pic) who formerly advised […]
The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra has a terrible reputation for mistreating foreign players and conductors. After sacking most of its western players, the orchestra was placed under an international boycott – which has not deterred hungry […]
We reported earlier that Franz Welser-Möst had withdrawn from Cleveland’s cycle of Beethoven piano concertos because he is still recovering from the effects of successful cancer treatment. It has just been confirmed that his chosen […]
The inimitable Quincy Jones died yesterday, aged 91. A kid off Chicago’s rough South Side, sharing drug fixes with Ray Charles, he won a scholarship to Berklee and wound up studying in Paris with Nadia […]
The Cleveland music director, who has received successful cancer treatment over 15 months, is apparently not quite ready to return for this month’s limelight cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with Igor Levit. The orchestra has […]
