Await the long Covid tour
PR message: I wanted to let you know about cellist and composer Joshua Roman’s Immunity project, centered around his experience of Long COVID, which he will tour to Long COVID clinics around the country this […]
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Six join Peabody
The Baltimore conservatory has made half a dozen new faculty appointments, it said today. Rachel Brashier (pic), Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education; Richard Drehoff, Assistant Professor in Ear Training; Annie Fullard, Professor and […]
Curtis hires four grads as teachers
There are the new teachers: Soloist, chamber musician, and humorist Nicholas Canellakis (Cello ’06); Philadelphia Orchestra assistant principal Yumi Kendall (Cello ’04); Boston Symphony Orchestra member Christine Jeonghyoun Lee (Cello ’13); and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra […]
LA Phil replaces chair with violinist’s husband
The board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has elected Jason Subotky in place of Thomas L. Beckmen as its chair from the beginning of October. Beckmen has presided over several management departures in his five-year […]
Composers cry foul as their notation software is stopped
The Finale technology has made this announcement: – There will be no further updates to Finale, or any of its associated tools (PrintMusic, Notepad, Songwriter) – It is no longer possible to purchase or upgrade […]
It’s Black Monday as Cleveland sacks its stars
The faculty senate at Cleveland Institute of Music is holding an extraordinary meeting today after the CIM’s administration have told senior teachers that their salaries will be cut by as much as two-thirds in order […]
Death of eminent German baritone, 78
The family of Kammersänger Professor Siegfried Lorenz have communicated sad news of his death, six days before his 79th birthday. Berlin born, Lorenz was permanent lyric baritone at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in East Berlin […]
A leading British composer died today
Schott UK have announced the death early this morning of the influential composer Alexander Goehr. Sandy was 92. A Hitler refugee, born in Berlin to the Schoenberg-trained conductor Walter Goehr, he studied in 1950s Manchester […]
The Boston Symphony is full of subs
A sharp-eyed audience member tells us that the orchestra playing at Tangleweood is made up one-third of substitutes: Last night’s concert at Tanglewood listed 37 substitute players, only one identified as a student at the […]
Italy’s president visits Mahler hut
In what may be the first official acknowledgement that Gustav Mahler created his last works on Italian soil, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella visited the wooden hut in Dobbiaco (Toblach) where the […]
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