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 brilliant jazz writer and sports journalist Richard Williams discovers a fellow-double-header: I first got to know Philippe Auclair, a Frenchman living in London since 1986, as someone who wrote about football in both French […]
Jiří Pánek, who died on December 19 aged 77, was an outstanding Czech violinist, happy to be leading great orchestras. But when the opera house in Pilsen ran into difficulties, someone had to grab hold […]
The Greek musicologist and senior music critic George Leotsakos died this week, aged 89. Born in Athens, on the 9th of August 1935, he studied with composers Kostas Kydoniatis and Yannis Andreou Papaïoannou, graduating from […]
