Here’s the link to Glen Roven’s counter-inauguration, featuring many of America’s top opera singers. And here’s an intelligent response from a bunch of Juilliard students,

Oliver Knussen called in sick, which is sad. But couldn’t they find a replacement, even if it meant dropping the one new work on the

The Nuremburg Symphony has named Kahchun Wong as its next chief conductor, starting September 2018. Wong, a Singaporean, won the Gustav Mahler conducting competition in Bamberg,

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has blown millions of francs over the past four years, compensating four managing directors who were unfairly sacked by a

A compelling distraction for a difficult day. The settings are by the British composer, David Matthews.

No talk of peace in this Al-jazeera report, only a threat to western educational charities to stop distracting young people from the armed struggle. Palestine

Our diarist, the violinist Anthea Kreston, is returning to teach at Curtis, where she passed a turbulent youth.   I have recently become re-engaged with

The much-loved Stanislaw Skrowaczewski has cancelled a concert in June, giving illness as the reason. We send all good wishes for his recovery. Music director of

The busy viola player Rachel Bolt is the latest to suffer the appalling customer relations of the Dutch airline. Here’s what Rachel tells us: I hope