The death has been communicated of Barbara Kolb, a prominent American modernist. She was among the first Americans to work with Pierre Boulez at his IRCAM institute in Paris.
The impressive pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati has cancelled her tour this year, saying she cannot perform there under the Trump administration. Nosrati, born in Bochum in 1989 to Iranian parents, has made her name playing Bach […]
The world according to conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza, author of What’s So Great About America: Someone should run up to the front and yank this self-serving conductor out of there. She’s ruining it! It’s not […]
I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]