Trump to host Kennedy honors: no classical talent
The US president has agreed to host the 2025 Kennedy Center honors. Usually there is one token classical or opera recipient – Martha Argerich, Renee Fleming or the like. Not this year. The 2025 […]
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Has the Met retreated from chorus diversity?
We have received concerns from Met insiders that the latest rounds of auditions have yielded a less diverse chorus membership. Here’s what the chorus is being told in an internal memo: The post Has the […]
Boston Symphony drops chorus director
The British Choral Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Burton, will leave his position directly after the Tanglewood Fesival. Burton, 51, is also conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He has been in both […]
British Airways bans viola
From Dani Cubero in Barecelona: Hi Norman. I couldnt flight today with British Airways Barcelona to London flight BA 483 because they wouldnt let me go with my viola. They say my viola its 82 […]
RCM piano professor steps down
Professor Vanessa Latarche, Chair of International Keyboard Studies and Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music, has shared this message with colleagues: I am writing to inform you all that our colleague Nigel […]
LA Phil mourns trombone, 78
Herbert (Sonny) Ausman, second trombonist in the LA Phil for 45 years, has died at the age of 78. His colleague, Ralph Sauer, writes: Herbert (“Sonny”) Medlar Ausman III passed away yesterday, just a few […]
Barenboim drops in on Thomas Mann
The West-Eastern Diwan orchestra performed last night with Daniel Barenboim in Lübeck, birthplace of the Nobel-winning German author. The concert’s soloist was Lang Lang. Questions are being raised about the orchestra’s purported neutrality after Barenboim’s […]
Horrible Hapsburgs: History in a bunker
The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family. Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding […]
Philharmonia finds new venue at end of Victoria line
The orchestra has established a residency in a refurbished cinema in … Walthamstow, at the eastern end of the Underground. The district’s only previous music connection was the town hall, which was once used for […]
The festival that lost its coverage
It’s August. There are daily review and reports from Salzburg, Bayreuth, the BBC Proms, Edinburgh…. even Schleswig-Holstein. What’s missing? Verbier. Despite attracting big-name performers and high-worth audiences, the Swiss mountain-tent festival has lost almost all […]
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