Pick of the Week

Two weeks ago, the Kazakhstan composer Yerkesh Shakeyev posted a Facebook appeal, seeking the whereabouts of his son, Safar, who had

Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen’s mid-60s lover and the inspiration for one of his greatest ballads, has died at around the

Fiona Maddocks, sparing with her five stars, was utterly uplifted by the new Thomas Ades opera at Salzburg. The world

Tomorrow, August 1, will be Theo Adam’s 90th. We wish him many more years of strength.

Vladimir Kehman, controversial and ambitious head of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg and later of the opera house in

The Wagner festival is renewing its association with the major German label. Makes sense, right? First off this production line

Ronen Segev runs a used piano business, Park Avenue Pianos, in New York. When he has too many concert grands

The German pianist and conductor is making light of surviving an attack by a shark off the shores of Hong

Before you start trying to guess which work, it’s Verklärte Nacht with the LA Phil in March 1935, six months after

A detailed piece of detective work at the British Library enables us to hear the first and last recording of

This is Aaron Blecker, retired Manhattan CPA, talking to the Met orchestra musicians: The first time I went to the