‘The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period,’ says today’s proposal. CPB feeds federal funding

ClassicalMusicNews.ru reports that Aeroflot is about to tighten cabin restrictions, starting on Thursday, February 15. No musical instrument cases will be allowed into the cabin.

Two group members are stepping down in the jubilee year. I’m writing to tell you all some news. After a lot of thought, I’ve decided

press release: Wigmore Hall’s choir for families living with dementia Singing with Friends will this evening perform a very special concert at Buckingham Palace. The event honours

Gerald Finley shows how it’s done. ‘It can take 100 to 150 times of repetition to absorb it in my mind, and in muscle memory.’

The mighty Paata Burchuladze is facing police questioning in his home town, Tbilisi, over allegations of embezzlement from his foundation. Paata, 62, has returned from St

A film about Itzhak Perlman, entitled ‘Itzhak’, is scheduled for release next month. It will open March 9 in New York at Landmark Cinema 57th Street and Quad Cinema and

Message from the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir bedauern, Ihnen mitteilen zu müssen, dass die Österreichische Musikzeitschrift mit Ende des Monats eingestellt wird.

Jean Grout, cellist of the Paris String Trio from 1967 to 1995, passed away this weekend. The group gave premieres of works by Edison Denisov, Betsy

Happy birthday greetings to the inexhaustible opera and film director, resting at his palazzo outside Rome. We spent an enchanting afternoon together there a few

The author Joseph Horowitz who, by his own count, has ‘written more about Wagner at the Met than any other living human being’, was refused