Most Read Today:
-
Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
-
Orchestras
San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
-
Orchestras
Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
-
RIP
Death of French maestro, 68
Message received: The Forum Voix Etouffées regrets to…
Latest News:
-
main
‘The Nick Cave of classical’? Come on…
Even by Sony standards the hype is far-fetched….
-
main
How Wojciech Kilar treated his conductors
The Polish conductor Antoni Wit was a close…
-
main
In some US orchestras, they bring guns to rehearsal
Why? To use on whom? Discuss. …
-
main
This is the queue today for the library
Full story here.
-
main
Cut! One of the great film composers has died
We’re receiving confirmation from Poland of the death…
-
main
Very angry tweet: French birds demand share of Messiaen’s royalties
The Union Ornithologique de France is getting into a…
-
main
I’m a pianist, living downstairs from the world’s greatest player
Zsolt Bognar is a fine young pianist who…
-
main
China’s violin method: ‘Study and train hard, according to a scientific method’
The Chinese Violin Society has been holding its…
-
main
He turns out the lights in the world’s remotest opera house
Raimundo Pereira do Nascimento is the electrician of…
-
main
Wedding of the New Year: A mandolin gets married
Our social secretary reports that Chris Thile, the…
-
main
Why did director ram-raid the Elysée Palace? He was trying to save his theatre…
Details are emerging about last week’s car crash…
-
main
The Pavarotti singer who overcame a harelip
Rae Woodland, who is thought to be the…
-
main
Russian opera singer says anti-gay law is ‘hurting our artists abroad’
The first sign of artistic dissent within Russia…
-
main
Finalists named for BBC Young Musician 2014
Press release: The 2014 Category Finalists…
-
main
Macabre maestro humour from the Bolshoi
This comes our way from a Moscow insider:…
-
main
Italy’s opera houses are 300 million Euros in debt
A thoroughly researched piece by Elisabeth Braw on…
-
main
Juilliard posts a faculty death notice
KLEIN–David, The Juilliard community mourns the death of…
-
main
A Silver Age legend has died, aged 101
The glamorous and indomitable Marta Eggerth breathed her…
-
main
Vienna loses a prominent critic
Peter Vujica, the influential culture editor of Der…
-
main
Storms force closure of Spanish arts centre
The Palau de les Arts in Valencia has been…
-