Pick of the Week

Marcus Overton, sometime general manager of the Ravinia Festival; director of performing arts at the Smithsonian Institution and artistic administrator

This weekend saw Zubin Mehta’s farewell concerts as music director of the Israel Philharmonic after 50 years in the role.

The death has been posted of William Benjamin Ray, a baritone from Lexington, Kentucky, who, unable to get work in

Some musical experiences from New York’s Saturday electricity blackout.  

The most original and successful English composer since the death of Benjamin Britten, Harrison Birtwistle is an acquired taste as

In a pre-Proms interview of stupefying superficiality, the pianist lets drop a fragment of credible personal history: Her parents, she

I walk past the old pile several times a week and I have a slice of personal history with it

Hours after received the Bavarian State Opera’s Mesitersinger medal, Jonas Kaufmann pulled out of the company’s festival production of Otello

Karen Palacio played principal clarinet at the National Philharmonic Orchestra for three months before being offered a contract, subject to

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:   …  the Czech conductor Jakob Hrusa has restored something of the original