Pick of the Week

Gretchen Nielsen, LA Phil’s Vice President of Education Initiatives, has jumped ship to become chief exec of the young-talent training org

Alitalia’s New Year just got a whole lot worse. See here. Stand by now for a Donald J. Trump tweet:

The Lucerne Festival has let it be known that the Venezuelan flagship orchestra will not be performing there with Gustavo

The Swiss conductor, accused of sexual molestation, has relinquished the last of his positions. Dutoit, 81, continues to maintain his

The soprano Ailyn Pérez is out of Munich’s new few Carmens. Her replacement as Micaela is the stunning Munich-based South

A blogpost from the great violinist: We visited three leprosy colonies in the last two days. Leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease,

From a lovely obit for East Village writer-musician Rayya Elias, who has died of liver and pancreatic cancer at 57: In

Hard to believe but the long-haired cellist from Latvia is 70 today… and still playing strong. He is the only

Joshua Weilerstein is pressing for gender equality at Switzerland’s Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. Simone Young is principal guest conductor and

The musicologist Walther Dürr, one of the founders of the Neue Schubert Ausgabe in Tübingen and a luminary of many

ForumOpera reports that the local authority has stepped in to purchase and restore the house at Bougival where Geirges Bizet