The death has been reported of Raul Barboza, master of the accordion who weaned the French off their wheezy soundscape onto a Latinate cosmopolitanism. Raul was 87. He migrated to France almost half a lifetime ago, in 1987.
The Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, an El Sistema alumnus who is very friendly with Gustavo Dudamel, has started a Sistema initiative in Montreal, where he is music director of the symphony orchestra. El Sistema is […]
Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a […]
John Leech who, with his wife Noretta Conci, created the Keyboard Charitable Trust, died on Friday a week ago at the age of 99. He received a private family funeral. The Keyboard Charitable Trust helps […]