
Star Wars soundtrack sold 94,000 last week. And classical sales?
The top 25 classical albums put together sold just under 9,000 copies in the US, the world’s largest market, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That’s the
The top 25 classical albums put together sold just under 9,000 copies in the US, the world’s largest market, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That’s the
In his resignation letter, sent today to Seoul Philharmonic players, Myung Whun Chung makes no secret of the cause of his departure, pledging to continue
The Quebec critic Claude Gingras has written his final column in La Presse today. Gingras, who is 84, has reported on a rising talent pool
The Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko is sick and has withdrawn from tonight’s Cav and Pag. At short notice, they’ve called in two tenors. Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana will
Five makers: Monika Grütters: The German culture minister has been a leading advocate in the value of arts to society Chopin Competition: Clean, transparent
Gordon Getty, an amateur composer who pays for his own works to be performed, has issued a garbled and incoherent attack on opera subsidy on
The Times Higher Educational Supplement has picked up on a storm generated by Slipped Disc over a Cambridge advertisement for a Senior University Lectureship in Wagner,
Here are the immediate consequences of Myung Whun Chung’s forced resignation today as music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. 1 The orchestra will lose its
The soprano Sonya Yoncheva (‘best since Callas‘) has been obsessively tweeting an interview in which she recounts how she fell for the love of her
We’re receiving reports from Korean media that Myung Whun Chung has resigned as music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra with immediate effect. He will
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