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.
Last night, Birmingham Opera Company gave Michael Tippett’s last opera, New Year, its first fresh airing since 1990 in the Dream Tent at Smithfield. First responses are enthusiastic. Reviews to follow. The post Tippett in […]
At St-Félix-de-Valois, near Joliette, home of Canada’s largest classical music festival, Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 63 kilograms of Cocaine inside a Grand Piano that was being delivered to the town. The piano (pictured) is […]
The New Jersey Symphony, a peripatetic orchestra, has been given a 30-year lease on a new Jersey City hall with 550 seats. The venue is owned by the city and the gift comes at a […]