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So in Love – Kiss Me Kate There’s a new production of Cole Porter’s great musical at the Barbican Theatre until Sept 14th. The casting is a bit odd. Who would ever have thought of bluff, […]

Alastair Macaulay writes movingly about a musician he greatly admired:   John Cage (1912-1992) died thirty-two years ago today, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Merce Cunningham, his life partner, came home from rehearsals […]

Antoine Siguré, Principal Timpani of the Philharmonia Orchestra since 2016, has joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Antoine, 37, is also Professor of Timpani at the Royal SAcademy of Music. That’ll be a long commute. The […]

Esa-Pekka Salonen is leaving the San Francisco Symphony because the board won’t pay for his programming. That’s widely known. In the next few days the board will seek city permission to go ahead with a […]

Message from the board in response to the musicians’ rebellion against the management over the Israel-Palestine war: MSO Statement, 16 August. The Board of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will conduct an independent external review into our […]

The new appointment is Matthew Quinn from Belfast, a former assistant content producer at the BBC. How the chorus job will now work with the company split between London and Manchester remains to be specified. […]

Early this year, we posted an appeal for the Slovenian pianist Sabina Svigelj, who sought treatment in Israel for Mucosal Melanoma. The appeal raised $97,321.00 Today we received this tragic news: It is with profound […]

The soft-soap arts section of the newspaper today posts an interview with Michael Haefliger, who is stepping down next year after 25 years at the head of the hyper-elite Lucerne Festival. Haefliger, 63, has one […]

Musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have just passed a vote of no confidence in their management. ‘We no longer have faith in the abilities of our senior management to make decisions that are in […]

Laurie Niles, an LA freelancer, writes violinist.com, essential reading for strings players. One day she got a call from her local band: … In late February, I received an e-mail from a personnel director whom […]