
Two US orchs abuse each other over Superbowl
The symphony orchestras of Charlotte and Colorado are getting a bit heated over a ball game. They’re even squabbling over which is the real CSO.
The symphony orchestras of Charlotte and Colorado are getting a bit heated over a ball game. They’re even squabbling over which is the real CSO.
After the chief executive’s apparent dismissal earlier this week, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has admitted – in a press statement of quite breath-taking
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Matous and Simon Michal, a pair of Czech brothers who are former #1s at the Verbier summer festival, have joined the CSO second violins, starting
The national library of France has taken possession of the documentary estate of Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod. The archive – almost 250 metres
Former students are posing news of the death today of Leslie Bassett, a Pulitzer-winning composer and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. He was
Ulf Söderblom has died, in the week of his 86th birthday. Ulf was principal conductor of Finnish National Opera from 1973 to 1993 and one of
He’s going to break the baton. You know he’s going to…
The glam choreographer Benjamin Millepied resigned his morning as director of Paris Opéra Ballet after just over a year, citing ‘personal reasons’. Off the record, he’s
Miguel Roa, a zarazuela specialist who conducted many worldwide performances and two DG albums with Placido Domingo, died today in Toledo. He was 71. In
An emergency call went out after midnight from the Pushkin disctrict, where a building of the music school was on fire. The damage is severe
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