Board member Roger Sant has pledged $10 million to the National Symphony Orchestra, its largest-ever individual gift. It brings Sant’s total lifetime giving to more than $35 million. Part of this funds the naming of […]
Last month Covent Garden changed its brand to Royal Ballet and Opera. Today it announced Rolex as ‘principal partner’, whatever that might mean. Rolex makes watches exclusively for the super-rich. If that’s the image Covent […]
Message from Mischa: As some of you might have heard, I recently suffered a severe infection of the spinal cord, leaving me almost paralysed. A week ago I underwent successful surgery, and now must go […]
We hear that a new rector at Notre Dame de Paris has dismissed two organists and replaced them with an underqualified young man. A petition to rectify the situation is being signed by many of […]
The Japanese violinist Yuki Serino won the 40,000-Euro top prize at the new Città di Cremona Competition. Second was Shaoheng Zhong from China. In third place was Nurie Chung from South Korea. The Lithuanian Chamber […]
The violinist and violist Maya Meron, whose career was disrupted by the collapse of an exercise machine at the Hampstead Heartcore studio, has won a £250,000 immediate court award, with further damages still to be […]
The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal). Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a […]
There is only one British contestant at this year’s Leeds piano competition, an event founded by piano teacher Fanny Waterman (pictured) to advance awareness of the instrument and its talented young performers. Just one. I […]
The violist Mathieu Herzog who quit the outstanding Quatuor Ébène a decade ago to pursue a conducting career, has been appointed artistic director of the Glanum Festival at Saint Rémy de Provence. The Orchestre Appassionato […]
The Wolverhampton Society has affixed a blue plaque to the house where one of the friends mentioned in Enigma Variations lived. Known to Elgar as Dorabella, Dora lived with her father the Rev Alfred Penny, […]
