Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner of the CDU is not hardening his plan to cut 12 percent from the city’s art spend.
He says: ‘I think we have to get away from the mentality of ‘we need money from the state’. I also expect our theatres and opera houses to explain exactly how they can operate more economically and with their own resources. This is a task that applies to all of us – regardless of which area we work in.’
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Paul Van Nevel, founder of Belgium’s early-music Huelgas Ensemble in 1971, has named his successor. The German tenor Achim Schulz, a singer in the ensemble for two decades, will gradually take up conducting responsibilities. Van […]
Conductor Herbert Blomstedt is 98. Still going strong. Must surely be the oldest maestro to stand (or sit) in front of the Vienna Philharmonic. The post Today’s other birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.
When Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony went bust in September 2023, that seemed to be it. Orchestras are not great believers in self-resurrection. But this one is. When the players of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony were told in […]
