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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Message received: The Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra mourns the loss of its honorary member Prof. Walther Schulz, the one on the morning of 9.7. has passed away peacefully. Walther Schulz was one of the most […]
The BBC’s classical radio station has continued its recovery with a 10% increase year-on-year, today’s Rajar ratings show. Radio 3 reached 1.95m in the last quarter of 2024. A further 150,000 listeners joined its new […]
Ireland’s Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced today that the country’s Arts Council spent €6.7 million (£5.7m) on an IT system that it soon abandoned. Report here. Why, they’re no better than the […]
