Fans have been complaining on Chinese social media that Yuja Wang cut short a Boston Symphony signing session on Wednesday in Shanghai, saying ”this is not my CD signing and I’m going to leave.’
She was, as is her habit in China, dressed very sedately.
In the darkened backroom of the BBC’s northern orchestra, brows are furrowed over the identity of a new supporter. The orchestra has been paying an agency to boost social media engagement. Its Facebook followers have […]
We reported in December that the Venezuelan violinist, Gabriela Lara, concertmaster of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, was Klaus Mäkelä’s first hire at the Chicago Symphony. It now turns out she is the first Latina in […]
Wagner’s epic score for Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) brilliantly captures the vast scale of the story, from the stormy overture to the final scene of tragedy and redemption. Wagner himself considered this opera as marking the real beginning […]