Gary Hanson, executive director of the Cleveland Orchestra, has told his board to search for a successor. He’s taking early retirement a year from now,

The series will be repeated on BBC Radio 3 on successive Monday nights at 10pm:  24th November, 1st  and 8th December. Book your fireside seats now. We’ll post

The wild man of the opera stage has been fairly subdued of late. Aside from a brilliant speech at the Polar Prize, he has kept

Nina Timofeeva, one of the mid-century stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, has died at the age of 79. Originally from Leningrad (St Petersburg),Nina joined the

More grim news from the Colon, in Buenos Aires. On Friday, bits of plaster from ceiling fell into the orchestra pit. Only five cellists were

The doomed Danish National Chamber Orchestra has scored more views in five days than anything screened from Copenhagen since Borgen. It has appeared on all

Contrary to yesterday’s ruminations, we’re delighted to learn that approval has been given for Franz Joseph Haydn to have a London blue plaque. Read here.

press release, just in: New York – On December 11, Christie’s is honored to offer an American cultural icon, ‘The Ricketts’ Apple-1 Personal Computer, as

Amit Peled plays the Haydn C major cello concerto, accompanied by six cellos in Douglas Moore’s reduction. Sounds pretty good. (Don’t tell ’em in Atlanta.)

On November 4, 1964 San Francisco heard the world premiere of Terry Riley’s In C, a work that repeats a single note, relieved by an