From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My professor earned commissions from my instrument purchase and the shop lied about its value. Advice? Dear Advice?, It’s not an uncommon thing to have a teacher earn […]
The violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov, head of Moscow’s International House of Music, has been awarded a state honour by his friend in the Kremlin. Spivakov, 80, joins a list of hard-handed sons of toil. […]
The Nutcracker auction has ended in Moscow, with bids coming in from all over Russia for scarce and expensive tickets in the Bolshoi’s seasonal run of 18 shows. The starting price was 50,000 rubles. The […]