Watch: It’s a Schoenberg opening night

Fans have been complaining on Chinese social media that Yuja Wang cut short a Boston Symphony signing session on Wednesday in Shanghai, saying ”this is not my CD signing and I’m going to leave.’ She […]

The Yehudi Menuhin School has chosen its next head, replacing Ashley Wass in September. She is violist Rosalind Ventris, Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at the University of Oxford and an active chamber […]

From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]