
Is there nowhere round here to practise?
Australia’s a big country, but members of its youth orchestra struggle to find a bit of peace and quiet.
Australia’s a big country, but members of its youth orchestra struggle to find a bit of peace and quiet.
The Boston Symphony has fixed its first trip north of the border this century. press release: For the first time in 21 years, the Boston
Statement by the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean of Washington National Cathedral: WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Christians, we are called, among other things, to be
We’re saddened to learn of the death of Lois Cohn, a long-serving, unusually agreeable head of press at Carnegie Hall and subsequently at the New
The Salzburg Landestheater has appointed a new music director, replacing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla who has gone off to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. It’s an internal promotion. Adrian
Hungarian archives have turned up a fascinating silent film of Oskar Fried conducting. The gestures are large, the baton long, the arms raised very high.
The tenor Melvyn Poll, who sang at City Opera from 1974 to 1978 after early successes in Germany and Israel, has died in Seattle at
According to the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Emperor made the gift in 1806. It was the first western keyboard instrument ever seen in Iran. But it
Amid the opening jubilations, the Elbphilharmonie suffered two last-minute cancellations. The Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling phoned in sick for Beethoven’s Ninth, and the composer Wolfgang
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