The flood of centennial memorabilia knows no bounds. WGBH’s Classical.org has just released a recording of Leonard Bernstein’s poem ‘Life is Juicy,’ read by actor Jeremy Irons. Classical.org will release

press release: CLEVELAND, Ohio ― The Cleveland Orchestra has announced that it is receiving a gift of $9.3 million from the estate of Dr. Jean

From John Walz, principal cellist of Los Angeles Opera:   This is a post I’d hoped I’d never have to write, but I need to

English National Opera has announced the death of Arthur Davies who played the Duke in Jonathan Miller’s indelible production of Rigoletto – in both the

Joseph Cullen, 58, former director of the London Symphony Chorus and the Huddersfield Chorus Society, has been jailed for a second time for child sex

From a correspondent: At last night’s recital by Grigory Sokolov in the Grosses Festspielhaus at the Salzburg Festival, as Sokolov was into the trio of

The Guarneri Quartet violinist Arnold Steinhardt has written a beautiful reflection on his friend and colleague Michael Tree, who died five months ago. In all

Our social affairs correspondent reports that the in-demand international soprano Elena Tsallagova, originally from Vladikavkaz, has got married in an English country garden. Her husband is

The organist and choir conductor Donald Hunt died on Saturday. A Gloucester lad, he studied with Elgar’s friend Herbert Sumsion, he became city organist of Leeds

The Israeli government has pulled the plug on the country’s educational channel, known locally as החינוכית, after just over 52 years of productive broadcasting. The channel

We reported extensively on the demolition of Camerata Nordica, a high-quality international orchestra in Sweden. The musicians, however, refused to accept its abolition. Here’s the