The National Symphony Orchestra has announced the death of Loren Kitt, its principal clarinet from 1970 to 2016. Here’s his retirement interview.

We are delighted to announce the marriage in Salzburg of Arabella Steinbacher, a widely recorded soloist, to Wolfgang Schaufler, publisher at Universal Edition, Vienna. We

Elena Schwarz, presently assistant to Mikko Franck at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, has signed a worldwide agency deal with Sulivan Sweetland.    

We hear that three board directors of Atelier Musicale – Markus Laska, Serena Marchi and Silvia Paolucci – have left the company to open a

The last interview given by Sir George Solti before his death, twenty years ago today, was given to the present author at the end of

September 6 1997 is a day I will never forget. Arriving home from Princess Diana’s funeral, I was greeted on my doorstep with news that

Nancy Welch Knowles, who has died aged 86, left $10 million in her will to the Lyric Opera of Chicago. It is the company’s the largest

From today, CAMI wants to be known as Columbia Artists. The mega-agency built up by Arthur Judson and Ronald Wilford wishes ‘to return “artists” to

The venerable director, 94 and undimmed, is to be celebrated in the Centro Internazionale per le Arti dello Spettacolo Franco Zeffirelli, just behind the Palazzo Vecchio.

The increase is eye-watering, more than the entire budget of some EU nations. Much of it, however, will go on infrastructure, such as Berlin’s Museum

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra has hired Sivan Magen as principal harp. Magen is presently a faculty member of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. He