Message from Andrew Balfour, a Cree composer from Winnipeg: Yesterday is a day I’d rather forget. Even with what I thought was proper paperwork, I was denied entry in US. So, they put you in […]
That Bastard Puccini is the title of a new play coming to the London stage by former Gramophone editor, James Inverne. It recounts the race between Puccini and Leoncavallo to compose an opera on La […]
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has appointed Wenhan Jiang as co-principal violist, taking him from the Ulster Orchestra, where he wsas principal viola. It’s the touring that excites him: ‘Wien – Hamburg – Hannover – Köln […]