Violinist Lisa Batiashvili has cancelled her three concerts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia on 28/29/30 November with Daniel Harding conducting. Her replacement in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2 will be the Hungarian Kristóf Baráti.
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Music? You can’t destroy that … (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch) Christian Berger’s film, Musik unterm Hakenkreutz, a fascinating and disturbing documentary in equal parts, is dominated by the figure of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1923), who endured imprisonment […]
The dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison died yesterday in a Manhattan hospital. A titanic figure, rising to five-foot-ten, she commanded the stage until Mikhail Baryshnikov arrived, at which point they arrested global attention as the […]
Hermes Helfricht, Kapellmeister of Oper Bonn, is to be the next GMD of Theater Hagen, in the Ruhr. Helfricht, 32, succeeds Joseph Trafton, who’s from Kentucky. So it goes. The post Jobs for boys: Bonn […]
