The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years.
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A career-long executive at the home of Italian opera, Maria Di Freda has died of an incurable illness. Maria joined La Scala in 1973 and was promoted to personnel director in 1991. Suriving the tubulent […]
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