1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (212+ words) NHK have purt up a terrific performance of Shehrezade, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. The orchestra is a crack outfit, the soloists first-rate and the dramatic tension just grown and grows. But what intrigued me most was the tone of the…...

3+ day, 15+ 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…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (95+ words) A founder of festivals and fixer of much else, Yves Petit de Voize died yesterday in his 70s. He founded and directed fetivals in Deauville, Royaumont, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Maximin and Lyon and was artistic director of the Montreux Festival. In the…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (330+ words) Robert Ames was joint founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra in 2006. Today he publicly resigned from the LCO in a Guardian polemic, arguing that there’s no longer a route into UK orchestras for children from poorer backgrounds. Here’s the nub…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (162+ words) We’ve received several messages saying that the exhumation of the oratorio La Sainte Face by a 21 year-old French student who went on to other things is nothing short of a masterpiece. Gripping from start to finish, said one correspondent. The…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (70+ words) The 6th Evgeny Svetlanov Concuting Competition was won last night in Birmingham by Michal Oren. Runner up was another Israeli, Mikhail Mering. Oren, 28, from Tel Aviv, is the newly installed assistant conductor at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. From the Lebrecht Album…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (142+ words) Slipped Disc Sydney mourns Con chief The death has been announced of the trombonist Ronald Smart, who taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from1975 and was its principal for two years in the 1990s. He established the Con’s first degree…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (96+ words) The orchestra will offer $10 Hollywood Bowl tickets to LA County residents with Medi-Cal or Electronic Benefit (EBT) cards, from 2027. Cynthia Fuentes, LA Phil Vice President of Community & Government Engagement, said the organization has been ‘prioritizing accessibility for a very long…...