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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Today’s 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner is being religiously observed in his hometown Linz and nearby villages. Here’s the schedule: Midnight at the Mariendom: Bells and imported sounds 4am in the birthplace at Ansfelden: musical […]
Pat Kop conducts Haydn’s Farewell Symphony with members of the Karajan Academy in Berlin. In the finale, the players walk off, one by one. It’s a Covid-era concert, with cadenzas by the leader. The post […]
The composer Thomas Hertel, former music director of Dresden State Theatre, died on Monday after a long illness. Hertel, who was 73, suffered restrictions under Communism and left for West Germany in 1985, finding work […]
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