I hear the Malmo Opera in Sweden is getting a new music director, in place of Joseph Swensen. All hail the indomitable Leif Segretsam, also

Meet Ruth Jeffrey. She’s 97 today and still playing cello in the Grand Rapids Symphonette (founded 1935).  Read on here. She’s been doing that since

Andrew Kazdin, a stalwart of the CBS Records team when it was the Tiffany label, has died aged 77. Kazdin worked with Thomas Z Sheppard,

From the Gavrilov memoirs: In 1981 Richter often lost his temper. It was the year when much that was inside of him died, when his

More from Andrei Gavrilov’s KGB memoirs: I was on my way back home from Mosfilm studios one day. I looked and see a crowd of

When Mariss Jansons became chief conductor at Bavarian Radio, it was on condition that the city build a new concert hall, the present facilities being

The memoirs of Andrei Gavrilov started to appear in the Russian press today. Gavrilov, winner of the 1974 Tchaikovsky competition, was later overheard making critical

A minor incident, perhaps another sign of the times. During a symphony concert in Bainbridge, Washington, a woman was hustled out of the performing arts