The game show host, who died this week, had a good rapport with his fellow-Canadian and presented several programs with him.
This is an absolute classic.
Wait to hear Zubin Mehta’s comment: ‘I think he’s out of his mind’.
The French president has personally chosen the German plastic artist Anselm Kiefer and the French composer Pascal Dusapin to instal a new work at the Pantheon tomorrow, at a ceremony commemorating the fallen of the first world war.
Macron is said to have known exactly what he wanted.
The New York office of IMG Artists has snatched the Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena from the Cami wreckage, where he was formerly represented by Stefana Atlas.
Mena, previously with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, is presently Principal Conductor of the Cincinnati May Festival.
The Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro has announced the death of Rafael Andrade, a well-liked staff pianist who accompanied Placido Domingo and many other guest artists. Many Brazilian musicians are offering tributes online.
UPDATE: A source tells us that Rafael was recovering from Covid-19 when he suffered cardiac arrest.
The story is told of a proud father who took his 12 year-old to Jascha Heifetz.
‘He knows the whole repertoire,’ bragged the Dad. ‘He has fabulous technique. He can play the Beethoven concerto backwards.’
‘So,’ said Heifetz with his trademark sour look. ‘Let him play it. Backwards.’
Looks like Yuja Wang is taking up the challenge.
The world renowned gamelan composer Rahayu Supanggah died today in Surakarta, having suffered a stroke last year.
His works have been taken up by many western ensembles and festivals.
The English Sibelius expert Robert Layton has died, aged 90. Together with the late Edward Greenfield and Ivan March, he produced the gently reliable Penguin Guides to Recorded Classical Music. He was also editor of the BBC Music Guide that rane from 1974 to 1990.
But his signal achievement was to sneak a wholly fictitious Scandinavian composer into the 1980 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, to the spluttering subsequent chagrin of its editor, Stanley Sadie.
photo: Paul Westcott
The distinguished German composer Hans-Jürgen von Bose will go on trial next week in Munich charged with several counts of rape dating back to 2006 and 2007. He denies the charges.
Von Bose, 67, is best known for an opera he wrote on Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five.
Until his arrest, he was professor of composition at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater where the former rector, Siegfried Mauser, was sentenced in 2018 to two years and nine months in prison. Mauser, 66, has yet to spend a single night in jail.
Von Bose has been held on remand, awaiting trial.
He is the grandson of Herbert von Bose, on of the earliest victims of Nazi rule. Herbert Von Bose was press aide to the German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen and was murdered by the SS during Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives.
With Covid-19 raging across the USA, the organisation has scrapped the rest of its program.
‘While it is deeply disappointing to have to cancel the remainder of the planned concerts in our 2020-21 Season, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 make it clear that this is the best course of action for the Symphony at this time,’ says San Francisco Symphony CEO Mark C. Hanson.
