The death has been reported of Paul Ethuin, one of the most influential French conductors outside Paris. He was 87.
Ethuin was music director at Reims, Toulouse, Dijon, Avignon and Rouen. He was also a guest conductor in Japan.
RIP 
Jackie Evancho, 11 year-old contender in America’s Got Talent, has topped the US classical record charts this year.
So why, when she makes her Lincoln Center debut to a ‘mostly-filled’ hall, was no classical critic sent to assess her performance? Were the editors afraid of backlash? Did the critics chicken out? Enlighten me someone.
Jon Caramanica, who reviewed for the Times, covers mostly rock and pop. And granny concerts, apparently.
The Welsh are trying to make a case for John Herbert Foulds, a composer whose First War eulogy A World Requiem had a brief success before being summarily discarded.
Was it because he had a child with a married woman who wasn’t his wife? Or because he liked talking to the dead and raising Hindui gods? That’s the latest musicological discovery in today’s Western Mail, always a good read.
Too good to be true, in parts. The headline seems to imply that A World Requiem, along with other works, is missing presumed lost, never to be heard again. Actually, it was revived at the Royal Albert Hall four years ago and released on the Chandos label.
And the sub-editor cannot make up his/her mind whether Foulds is plural or singular. Not surprising, perhaps, in his circumstances.
Three Sydneysiders who scaled the city’s most famous monument last month before skipping down its western shell have been treated fairly mildly by the courts.
A $200 fine and don’t do it again.
The three were part of a group of 30 who were trying to draw attention to the destruction of Australian forests. They succeeded.
And here’s the protestors’ version.