Jonas Kaufmann: Managing other people’s cancellations
The numbers are in at the Erl winter festival in Tyrol and the backers are happy. When the curtain dropped last night, 94 percent of tickets had been sold, more than ever before. What counted […]
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Herbert Blomstedt: ‘I never conquered an orchestra’
The conductor, 97, gives a reflective interview to Markus Thiel. Sample quotes: There is so much wonderful music that I would like to perform and that could change me. But you just don’t have that […]
Berlin cancels musical due to city cuts
Berlin’s Komische Oper has called off its summer production of the popular ex-DDR musical, ‘Mein Freund Bunbury’. They say: ‘We would like to start the year with some good news, but due to the austerity […]
Colburn orchestra director, RIP
We have been apprised of the passing of Jim Kjelland, director of orchestras and coordinator of strings from 1984 at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. He was 76. Kjelland write several […]
New Year good news (1): Mischa Maisky’s back
The cellist has been given the all-clear by his doctors, six months after major surgery. He will give a thanksgiving concert in Lucerne on January 16 with longterm besties Martha Argerich and Janine Jansen. ‘And […]
Ex-Berlin Phil player is Prague’s new baton
The Czech National Theatre has started the year by replacing its chief conductor and chorusmaster. Out goes Andriy Yurkevych, ‘who is leaving the post for personal reasons’. Yurkevych, a Ukrainian, has been in the post […]
New Year, new tubist
Meet Chloe Higgins. She has just won the principal tuba seat in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, in Perth. Blow the winds, southerly. The post New Year, new tubist appeared first on Slippedisc.
A major boost for Scottish mezzos
Friends have organised a new singing award for mezzo-sopranos in memory of Emma Kerr, a Glyndebourne chorus member who died tragically young during the collective Covid depression. In her memory, Katie Grosset, Jo Padfield and […]
Met Police: Play classical music to scare off drug dealers
Police have reportedly told residents of the upmarket London district of St Johns Wood to play loud classical music in order to keep crome of the streets that they no longer patrol. The NW8 area […]
What the world needs now is Bach, more Bach
The baroque violinist Tekla Cunningham has founded a Bach festival in Seattle, gateway to the new. It opens next weekend in at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral , moving on to Lynnwood and Tacoma. Tekla says: […]
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