Aside from working on a film version of West Side Story, the director is widely reported tonight to be looking at filming a bipic of Leonard Bernstein.

Wonder who’ll play Glenn Gould.

The Düsseldorf Symphony are without a conductor this week after Alexandre Bloch cried off.

The last-minute replacement is Joseph Bastian, bass trombone of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has previously jumped in for Robin Ticciati.

First Ivor Bolton in Basle.

Now Daniel Hope has signed a new contract with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, taking him to 2022.

Message from Corina Santos about the death of Draylen Mason, a double-bass player in the Austin Youth Orchestra.

Two people have been killed by three package bombs in Austin over the past 10 days.

From the Vienna Opera:

The splendid Maria Oran, widely recorded in a great range of concert and opera repertoire, died on March 10 at the age of 74.

Ivor Bolton is having such a good time in Basle that he has signed a new contract as chief conductor, taking him to 2025.

Ivor is also music director of the Teatro Real in Madrid.

The international pianist Ivan Davis died last night in Miami.

A protege of Vladimir Horowitz, who took him home to dinner in 1960 after Davis won a Liszt competition in New York, Davis recorded for CBS in the 1960s and Decca the following decade.

He blazed new trails for the music of two Americans, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and George Antheil. His Gershwin records were bestsellers.

He taught at the University of Miami.

She once sang for Karajan.

Her accompanist here is called Sohyang.