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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Letter from the orchestra’s CEO Emma Stenning to a customer disturbed by use of phones in symphony concerts. Dear [name redacted] Thank you so much for your continued support of the CBSO. You are, and […]
I have really enjoyed Domingo Hindoyan‘s recordings of less familiar, less over-recorded repertoire. His discs of French ballet music, “Venezuela!”, and the music of Roberto Sierra were really terrific. But then Onyx released his Bruckner 4, and now […]
A former scholarship student at Kent State University, the Czech clarinetist Jaroslav Skuta has abandoned a concert tour with his trio after being detained at immigration in Detroit. ‘I was subjected to aggressive, demeaning interrogation […]
