Shocking survey laid out in the Church Times by the The Royal School of Church Music. Most music in churches in England is unpaid: 92 per cent of choirs, 50 per cent of piano/keyboard players, […]
The Italian Daniele Gatti took over last night as chief conductor of the Dresden Sataatskapelle, one of the world’s longest-running orchestras. He opened with Mahler 1, inaugurating the first complete Mahler cycle in the orchestra’s […]
The conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, recovering presently from a bout of flu, as been using his downtime to create an online shrine to his phenomenal ancestors. “My grandparents became mega-stars,” says Tilson Thomas, “and found […]