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In praise of a Boston outcast
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That little violin store on the prairie
15+ hour ago (345+ words) Harry Sanders, who died this week, aged 59, was a chronicler of his city, Calgary, capital of Canada’s oil industry. It’s a town of 1.3 million souls with a resident philharmonic orchestra. Musicians used to get their instruments maintained at W A…...
Boston kicks the can 2 days down the road
2+ week, 6+ day ago (68+ words) The musicians and management of the Boston Symphony have agreed on a two-day extension to the present contract, which expires tonight. Chad Smith says he looks forward to ‘your continued support and engagement during this period.’ We hear that Marilyn…...
Peace at last in the Apple Classical charts
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (165+ words) The charts have been comatose all summer, barely worth reporting. But today there’s a new entrant, at number 10 (see below). I’m a former medical student who turned to music as my way to heal people. In this busy world, I…...
Just in: Yale exalts Dudamel
1+ week, 5+ day ago (136+ words) Yale University has allocated ‘one of the university’s highest honors’ to the conductor Gustavo Dudamel, ‘recognizing individuals whose achievements in the arts, letters, or public affairs exemplify the highest ideals of public service and human endeavor’. He will receive the…...
British mezzo-soprano, 102
3+ week, 16+ hour ago (123+ words) The delightful Laura Sarti died this weekend at a very great age. Born in Trieste, Northern Italy, she spent the Second World War in Egypt, coming to England in the 1940s to join Glyndebourne where she was a proetgee of Vittotio…...
The return of Hans Keller and Milein Cosman
3+ week, 1+ day ago (165+ words) Burgh House in Hampstead has oragnised a music resideency in a three-year partnership with The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust. Hans and Milein were fixtures on the London chamber music scene and it’s a thrill to have them back. The…...
End of the baton for Herbert Blomstedt?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (479+ words) The doyen of conductors has cancelled mid-September concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus ‘aus gesundheitlichen Gründen’ – for health reasons. Marek Janowski will jump in for Bruckner’s eighth symphony in the 1888/1890 version. Blomstedt is 99 and has bookings well into next year, but…...
All's quiet on the Boston front
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (129+ words) We’re hearing from source in Boston and New York that the Boston Symphony management has ended its relationship with New York publicist Amanda Ameer, who advised them over the handling of the removal of Andris Nelsons as music director. Neither…...
An enigmatic violinist returns to the air
1+ week, 4+ day ago (138+ words) The remarkable virtuoso Yuval Yaron took lessons with Jascha Heifetz and won the 1975 Sibelius competition in Helsinki. But he was never entirely comfortable in the public eye and preferred to spend two decades teaching at Bloomington, Indiana. In 2001, he took…...