The 59 volumes of the complete Bach edition owned by Gustav Mahler have been bought by the Leipzig Bach Archive. The edition is incomplete; two final volumes appeared after Mahler’s death.

The set was owned successively by his widow Alma and daughter Anna. After Anna’s death in 1988, it was sold to a London collector, who died in the past couple of years. Mahler made an orchestral piece of his own out of two Bach suites.

 

No Schrei.

Lighter

 

The Romanian-born Sergiu Natra died today.

A prolific composer in many forms, he was also an influential and much-loved teacher at Tel Aviv University.

Portland State University is hiring a voice and music teacher. But candidates must also teach an unrelated discipline.

That’s what it has come to.

Read the job spec here.

 

The Australian conductor Nicholas Milton has been named chief conductor of the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, in Klagenfurt, from this summer.

Milton, 53, has been chief in Göttingen for the past three years.

 

A month ago, the conductor Emmanuelle Haim posted a notice of mourning for the development director of Le Concert d’Astrée, Céline Foucaut,  young mother who died of cancer.

Today Emmanuelle and Le Concert mourn Jean-Paul Ruault, husband of Patricia Faulon-Ruault, their Executive Director.

They say: Ses idées étaient innovantes, singulières, audacieuses, et son enthousiasme ne connaissait pas de limites. Nous regretterons ses rires, sa bonne humeur, et nous nous associons à l’immense douleur de son épouse Patricia et de leurs filles.
His ideas were innovative, singular, bold, and his enthusiasm knew no bounds.We will miss his laughter, his good humour, and we share the immense pain of his wife Patricia and their daughters.

 

From the Met’s 990 tax return for fiscal year 2018, now in the public domain.

The company’s lawyers Proskauer Rose made just under $1.9 million from the Met that year.

Peter Gelb earned $2.5 million.

Right now, Gelb using the same lawyers has got out of paying his orchestra musicians for the past year.

The young US conductor Melissa Panlasigui has been conducting Government-funded research in Berlin on the advancement of women in Germany’s 129 professional orchestras.

The results are not encouraging.

Between 2000 and 2019 the number of general music directors who are women rose from 2 to 5.

On the boards of these orchestras, women hold just 29 percent of the seats.

Read Melissa’s work in progress here.

 

 

 

From Austin 360:

Gene Taylor, a renowned blues and boogie-woogie pianist in Los Angeles in the 1970s and ’80s who moved to Austin in the 1990s to play with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, died Saturday at home in North Austin. He was 68.

Taylor’s housemate, filmmaker Monty McMillan, said Sunday that he found Taylor’s body in bed Saturday morning. The house had been without heat for five days as a result of statewide power outages related to the recent winter storm.

“I don’t really know exactly what happened.” McMillan said. “I don’t know if he had some underlying health condition, but I know the cold didn’t help.

“We both stayed in our own beds trying to stay warm. I came out of it OK, and he obviously didn’t.”

Gene Taylor was highly popular in Belgium and Sweden.

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, known as the world’s worst managed orchestra, has signed an open-ended contract with its British principal conductor Jonathan Nott.

‘The relationship between Jonathan Nott and his orchestra is so strong that we have not indicated an end date of the collaboration,’ says Steve Roger, the OSR’s current director general.

Given that the OSR changes its administrator every couple of years, non-ending contract may not mean forever. But it sounds good.

Nott, 58, became music and artistic director in January 2017. He also has an orchestra in Japan.

 

In an unusually revealing interview with a friendly Antwerp newspaper, the New York and Hong Kong Philharmonic music director says he had Covid and it was not too bad: ‘I’ve had covid. In November. The symptoms were not too bad. I had a cold and in the evening I suffered from shivering. That was it.’

So the weight loss?

I woke up one morning and saw myself in the mirror. I didn’t like what I saw. My big belly. I decided there and then to work on my body. In six months I lost 30 kilograms. I trained like crazy. I thought, why can’t I apply the discipline I show for the music to my body? I even follow boxing training now. ‘

Read on here.