San Diego’s symphony hall, the Jacobs Music Center, is reopening this weekend after extensive refurbishment with Mahler’s second symphony.
As an unusual prelude to the ribbon cutting, music director Rafael Payare took the oath of US citizenship.
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At a time of overwhelming anti-semitism, A Survivor from Warsaw comes as a timely reminder of what genocide really means. It’s from the NDR Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The post Arnold Schoenberg, just when […]
The BBC Symphony Orchestra has renewed the contract of chief conductor Sakari Oramo by five more years. He has been in charge since 2013. He will conduct the Last Night of the Proms again this […]
The US president has agreed to host the 2025 Kennedy Center honors. Usually there is one token classical or opera recipient – Martha Argerich, Renee Fleming or the like. Not this year. The 2025 […]
