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Woeful shakeout at London's South Bank
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (162+ words) Anti-colonialist chairman Misan Harriman is being ousted in the next few days. Entertainment lawyer Libby Savill, his deputy, will step up as chair. Two new governors – Maria Balshaw and Roxana Mirica – add nothing to the centre’s primary need: a recommitment…...
Just in: Opera North names German music director
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (68+ words) The company, based in Leeds, has chosen Patrick Lange to succeed Garry Walker, who departs after almost a decade in 2028. Lange, 45, has been Generalmusikdirektor in Wiesbaden and a guest conductor in major German houses. For the second time in her…...
Boston Symphony's new chorus director will be keeping his day job
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (110+ words) With all the torments at Tanglewood this summer, you’d imagine a new recruit might want to hedge his bets. Jean-Sébastien Vallée was today named Director of Choruses of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He…...
A 200 year-old cello is cracked. Airlines say: not our fault
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (74+ words) Message from the Darlington Quartet from western Australia: Qantas, which flew the cello to London, denies liability. Brtish Airways, which flew the Manchester leg, will not respond. The Quartet are now safely in Greece. The airlines just get away with…...
Turmoil in Detroit as 3 are fired amid yawning deficit
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (77+ words) The Detroit Symphny Orchestra has eliminated three senior staff positions. They are: Director of Culture & Inclusion Director of Safety & Security and Manager of Volunteer & Patron Experiences. All three are public facing roles. The DSO has registered deficits in three of…...
Where was the New York Philharmonic on 9/11
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (360+ words) A request for information that I raised on social media has drawn some treasurable responses. I asked: I have a memory of a member of the NY Philharmonic playing near Ground Zero in the days after 9/11. Does anyone recall who…...
Belgium loses one of its last classical record stores
1+ week, 1+ day ago (93+ words) The Brussels haven known as La Boîte à Musique shut down today. The business will continue online and staff will still be available to advise on phone but the inexorable disapperance of the record store as a social entity is…...
Poles appoint a Lebanese chief conductor
1+ week, 3+ day ago (116+ words) Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw has chosen Bassem Akiki as its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. Arriving in Poland from Beirut twenty years ago, Akiki graduated from the Cracow Music Academy and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw....
An unwonted allusion to architectural megalomania
1+ week, 5+ day ago (169+ words) From a Washington dispatch by Elizabeth Williamson in today’s NY Times: … my colleague Maggie Haberman told me that he continues to spend the bulk of his working hours on changes to the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian, a new White…...
Universal Edition shuts its stores
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (105+ words) ORF Salzburg reports that US is closing its historuc outlets in the city, and in Vienna. The Vienna music publisher Universal Edition will close its two music stores in Salzburg and Vienna at the end of September. The “Mayrische” in…...