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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The West-Eastern Diwan orchestra performed last night with Daniel Barenboim in Lübeck, birthplace of the Nobel-winning German author. The concert’s soloist was Lang Lang. Questions are being raised about the orchestra’s purported neutrality after Barenboim’s […]
The Parisian music critic Alain Lompech (pictured) has a reputation for not respecting reputations. This week, he set his sights on the vastly popular Paris-based pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. Khatia was playing Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto […]
The death has been announced of Andrzej Klimczak, international bass-baritone and co-founder five years ago of Polish Royal Opera. He had endured a prolonged illness. Klimczak appeared, in Poland and internationally, in 50 bass-baritone roles. […]
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