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 music school, which already owns the AskonasHolt agency and the Penatone record label, has now struck a deal for emerging Black composers with the Birdsong publishing wing of HP, who are direct rivals of […]
Berklee College of Music has fired trumpeter Nicholas Payton, chair of the school’s Brass Department,over a string of anti-semitic comments in his social media. Among other libels he accused Jews of oppressing black people. Payton […]
Conway Hall Conway Hall’s Sunday Concerts, a concert series established in 1887 and still going strong, remains something of a hidden gem dating from 1929. Weekly classical chamber music at affordable prices in a remarkable […]