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The Dutch choral world is in mourning for  Bas Ramselaar, an imperious bass singer and chorus conductor who has died after a seven-month illness. Bas enjoyed an international career as soloist with majopr orchestras.   […]

A report, described as ‘new research’ by the Donne Foundation and the Independent Society of Musicians, shows what are claimed to be ‘significant gender and racial inequalities’. The report shows that: – 89.9% of music, […]

The BBC has named a  new chief conductor of the BBC Singers, to succeed Sofi Jeannin a year from now. He is Owain Park, principal guest conductor since 2022.   The post Baton handover at […]

A concert has been arranged on July 27 at the Royal Palace of Caserta in which Valery Gergiev will conduct ‘soloists of the Mariinsky Orchestra of St Petersburg’. This will be Gergiev’s first appearance in […]

Described as a musical comedy by its composer, Franz Lehár’s last operetta has more in common with Puccini’s great operas than classic American musicals, as demonstrated by its premiere amid great fanfare at the Staatsoper […]

The Prayer  I’ve known and admired Liz Callaway for years. She is a Tony and Grammy nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We […]

Red Click here to subscribe Red, a play by John Logan that I admired very much when it opened in London in 2009, a regard which only deepened when I saw it again subsequently in […]

The composer Halvor Haug died on June 3. He leaves five symphonies, one of which is titled ‘The Inscrutable Life’. Born in Trondheim, Haug studied in Oslo and Helsinki before concluding his studies in 1970s […]

By Gina Thomas in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: … Brendel’s coffin was carried into the church to the strains of the long first movement of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, performed by the Quator […]

This notice went out last night to ticket-holders: Guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen regrettably has withdrawn from his three scheduled appearances at Tanglewood this month for personal reasons. We are grateful that our longtime artistic partner […]