Judy Drucker is 89 and going strong.

She made her name in the biz in 1967 by starting a concert association in Florida.

Since then, hardly an artist of note has been left of her radar.

They are about to celebrate her half-century in music.

Tribute here.

The posh people’s opera festival plans two shows at the Empire Theatre in 2019, the first time it has played on Merseyside for almost half a century.

Until 1972, Gly used to work at developing opera audiences all over the country. Then they got bored with the less fashionable bits.

Good to see they’ve got their mojo back.

The Polish composer is receiving an honorary doctorate from Indiana University today.

On Wednesday he will conduct IU Jacobs School musicians in his St Luke’s Passion.

The memoirs of harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, who died in September aged 90, have been bought by Bloomsbury, the original Harry Potter publisher.

Ruzickova survived three Nazi concentration camps and a brutally antisemitic Communist regime.

Publication is scheduled for Spring 2019.

Publicists for the Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son are claiming that her performance of Mozart K467, due for release on a boutique label next spring, will have been the prolific conductor’s last word on record.

Neville, who died last year aged 92, never knew exactly how many records he made, only that he was the second most recorded conductor after Karajan.

But before we get too excited about this valediction, it’s worth knowing that most of Neville’s recordings in his 90s were done as favours – either to his orchestra, to keep them in work, or to friends in the music biz who needed to give their artists a shard of limelight.

He was the most generous of men.

Christoph Eschenbach, 77, was installed this morning as chief conductor of Berlin’s Konzerthausorchester, succeeding Ivan Fischer.

When we first foretold the move, many regarded at as wierdly regressive.

He won’t come cheap, either. Eschy’s last Washington DC pay packet was close to $2.5 million a year.

The Telegraph has cobbled together a story from comments by disparate critics (though not its own) that rape scenes have become too prevalent in ballet.

Since the traditional ballet audience is made up largely of grannies and their little charges on a birthday treat, this might be a bit close to the bone.

But there has been no upsurge in audience complaints. All the Telegraph could find were three tweets.

The barrel is being rather noisily scraped.

The Venezuela-born composer Reynaldo Hahn was close to Marcel Proust from 1894 to his death in 1922.

He was widely esteemed as a composer of upmarket chansons for the bourgeois salon.

This unexpected find shows he had a sweet singing voice, though no lower register.

After the Second World War, Hahn was briefly director of the Opéra de Paris until his death from a brain tumour.

We have information that a well-known instrument professor was fired by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music last October after allegations of misconduct with female students and applicants. One auditioner was aged 16 at the time.

The teacher was also suspended from a New York institution, while continuing to teach elsewhere.

We have withheld his name because no criminal charges were brought.

However, it seems that the Berkelee College’s practise of sacking predatory teachers without a stain on their record may be more prevalent in US conservatories than previously suspected.

Please do not name names in your comments. They will be deleted.

UPDATE: The professor is named.