Breitbart News, mouthpiece of Trumpworld, reports that the proposed Congressional budget increases the budgets of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National

Universal Music has just upgraded Rebecca Allen from managing director to President of Decca UK. Becks, who started out 17 years ago on the label’s

Several media outlets are reporting that the new President of France wanted to become a pianist. Some say he won awards. We can find no

Boutique label Somm are bringing out 16 unpublished tracks by the British contralto Kathleen Ferrier. These recordings are from two sources. Several are from the

The troubled post of music director of the Komische Oper Berlin has falled to the Latvian Ainars Rubikis, formerly music director in Novosibirsk until he got

From our morning … … tweets: the Dutch baritone Bästiaan Everink, presently singing Marschner’s The Vampire at Theater Koblenz. Bastiaan is a former combat soldier

This one’s from Joseph Calleja. l-r: Sonya Yoncheva, Diana Damrau, Kristine Opolais, Armiliato, Joyce DiDonato, Calleja, Pretty Yende Any more? Here’s one: Backstage fun before the

Rami was 21 when he fled Homs in 2015. He crossed eight countries to reach Germany and lost his violin on the way. But suddenly