Deborah Rutter, sacked as president of the Kennedy Center by Trumpist board, has been named keynote speaker for Opera America’s 2025 conference in Miami. Opera America, based in New York, is the national forum and […]
From a brilliant FT column by mathematician Tim Harford: Mozart and Haydn were composing string quartets a quarter of a millennium ago, when the industrial revolution was in its infancy. Since then, the scale of […]
We have been informed of the death of Bernard Garfield, principal bassoon for 43 years of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He passed away at home on April 29, 2025 in Haddonfield, NJ. After freelancing in New […]