From the great man’s maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1993, newly uploaded on Youtube.
‘Music is the one art,’ he says, ‘that can create order out of chaos.’
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The death of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm has left a vacancy at the festival’s next-gen orchestra. Rihm’s successor, announced today, is to be the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann. The post New wind […]
The Hollywood composer, 93, was due to conduct a concert of his music is June. His replacement is Stéphane Denève, music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. pictured: JW earlier this month. Press statement: […]
Message from the Australian Jewish Association in response to the MSO’s apology to the anti-Israel activist pianist Jayson Gillham: If the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra wants to engage in anti-Israel activism, why on earth would Jewish […]
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