Huge applause for Andrew Lumsden (and Claudia Grinnell) at the conclusion of this afternoon’s ’farewell’ evensong. Congregation of hundreds; wonderful singing – the most musical congregation I’ve ever had the privilege to be a part of.
Andrew directed the choir and played us out magnificently through the last hymn and voluntary. Extraordinarily positive congregation celebrating 22 years of his first-class direction and music-making.
The death was made known today of the long-serving Chief Conductor of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimír Válek. He was 89 years old. Founder of the Dvořák Chamber Orchestra in 1970, Valek was in […]
Friends are reporting the death of Jay David Saks, winner of 13 Grammy awards for recordings from Broadway, concert halls and the Metropolitan Opera. He was 79. His Linkedin bio lists him as: Jay David […]
Tomorrow, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, the Munich Philharmonic will play a concert with 50 musicians from the Israel Philharmonic. Lahav Shani will conduct Tzvi Avni’s ‘Prayer’ for […]