Covid-sick Kaufmann cancels Paris
Jonas is out for a month. Nous sommes navrés de vous annoncer que Jonas Kaufmann, atteint du Covid 19, se voit contraint de reporter son concert prévu le mercredi 9 octobre à 20 h au […]
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Artists who are taking Shor’s shilling
Describing itself as ‘as one of the world’s most notable classical music festivals’, InClassica International Music Festival will be resident next April at Dubai Opera ‘with a special edition dedicated to marking the 55th birthday […]
Fire forces opera to move across town
From Steve Swartz in Baltimore: Baltimore, MD – Due to Sunday morning’s underground fire in downtown Baltimore and the resulting loss of electrical power, the Sunday matinee performance of composer Michael Hersch’s new opera, and […]
Danish quartet win $150k
Denmark’s highest musical honour, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize worth 133,000 Euros, has stayed close to home. The 2025 winner, announced today, is the Danish String Quartet. They say: ‘We are thankful and humbled. Denmark […]
Death of French maestro, 68
Message received: The Forum Voix Etouffées regrets to inform you of the passing today of its founder and director Amaury du Closel, who passed away last night at the age of 68. Du Closel was […]
Hallo? Is that Clara Schumann’s phone?
Students at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau have utilised AI to enable visitors to the Robert Schumann birthplace Museum to talk to Clara on her home phone. Clara was listed in […]
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last night at the Staatsoper in Berlin when a very frail Daniel Barenboim received the title of Honorary Chief Conductor and ‘passed the baton’ to his successor, Christian […]
Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
The Serenade in C K 648 for two violins and bass, nicknamed A Very Little Night Music, was discovered recently in Leipzig and performed at the Gewandhaus. Now the veteran Herbert Blomstedt has recorded an […]
Editorial: It’s time to change most orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe and the US drew a tsunami of responses, mostly defending the current administrative practice of seeking to balance – that is, manipulate – new entrants to orchestra […]
A bassoon is stolen in Brooklyn
From Sara Schoenbeck, a teacher at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music: Someone stole my constant companion from me in Brooklyn today (ed. Sunday). They took my soulful, beautiful and irreplaceable Heckel Bassoon, serial #9703. Please […]
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