The city of Prague is pushing ahead with a new symphonic hall on the banks of the Vlatava.

Architects are being lined up.

Report here.

 

It could be about to happen.

John Holiday, 35, has reached the finals of NBC’s The Voice. Earlier this year, he was singing Orpheus at LA Opera.

“If my music can bring somebody a little hope, a little joy,” he said. “If I can bring someone out of being depressed during this difficult time or help them if they’re grieving, if I can remind one person to lean into their uniqueness in those few minutes I’m on TV, then I’ve done my job.”

 

The Boston Symphony has been running an online recital by the harpist Charles Overton and associate principal horn Richard Sebring.

Overton, 26, is a rarity. Apparently only one in 19 orchestral harpists are male, and fewer still are minority ethnic.

I’d like to hear more of him. So would the desperate BBC’s classical station under its new 20 percent minority target.

Read here.

 

During the second wave of Covid-19, an opera on the British cellist was premiered online. It is now scheduled for a real-life tour of Holland, Covid permitting.

Why, and how here.