Itzhak Perlman slashes $17m house price
Itzhak and Toby Perlman have relisted their Upper West Side townhouse for sale at a considerably reduced price. Last put up for sale for $17.5 million in March 2022, the pad if now going for […]
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Who’s making how much at the NY Phil
The accounts are in for the fiscal year ending August 2023, and here are the top earners: Music director Van Zweden (via Bajada Productions) … $1,525,711 Executive director Deborah Borda … $1,317,344 plus $400,000 bonus […]
Gustavo Dudamel: I’m not leaving LA
The apparently departing music director has gone to great lengths to reassure the West Coast that, whatever happens in New York, home stays home. From an interview with Mark Swed of the LA Times: “I […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Casper David Friedrich’s 250th birthday
Who? Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically […]
A Ring cycle to rival the Met’s
No sooner has the Metropolitan Opera rolled out plans for a new Wagner Ring than the Dallas Symphony announces concert performances of all four operas (Oct 13, 15, 17, 20), as well as standalone Siegfried […]
Best-selling US organist dies, 81
The ever-popular Michael Murray died last week at the age of 81. A student of Marcel Dupré, whose biography he would write, Murray was organist of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, for 31 […]
Where’s Anna Netrebko?
The Russian-Austrian diva has been seen this week in Amsterdam in the company of her new beau, the Hungarian-Romanian bass Alexander Köpeczi. The pair have been friends since April when they sang together in La […]
Ryanair refuses to board a violin
With Ryanair, it’s almost as if they go to work each day wondering how to inflict more distress on their passengers. This just in from the violinist Esther Abrami: Today I was refused boarding on […]
An American tenor in Paris dies, aged 77
We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris. He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn […]
Famed French organ is destroyed by arson
The 1861 Merklin organ at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, Northern France, has been completely destroyed in an overnight fire, believed to be the work of arsonists. The fire broke out at […]
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