Soviet-born American violinist Lazar Gosman has passed away – aged 93. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire, where he studied with David Oistrakh, he served…
View More SAD NEWS | Soviet-American Violinist Lazar Gosman Has Died – Aged 93 [RIP]Месец: юли 2019
Eastern Music Festival Extends Music Director Gerard Schwarz to 2023
The Eastern Music Festival, in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, has this week announced the contract extension of Music Director Gerard Schwarz – through to…
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A forgotten conductor’s centenary
A new friend has just reminded us that Norman Del Mar would have been 100 today. He was a pivotal figure in British music, a…
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SCRUTINY | NYO Canada Raises The Roof At Koerner Hall
To paraphrase a pithy bon mot popularly attributed to Walt Kelly, “We have seen the future of Canadian classical music, and it is the National…
View More SCRUTINY | NYO Canada Raises The Roof At Koerner HallComposer & Pianist Franz Liszt Died On This Day in 1886 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Hungarian composer, piano virtuoso and conductor Franz Liszt died on this day in 1886 – aged 74. He is remembered as one of the most important composers…
View More Composer & Pianist Franz Liszt Died On This Day in 1886 [ON-THIS-DAY]After Decades of Music, Tanglewood Talks
With its first major building project in 25 years at its summer home in the Berkshires, the Boston Symphony places a bet on the booming…
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RIP Soviet Emigre Orchestra chief
Lazar Gosman, the Lengingrad Philharmonic concertmaster who founded the Soviet Emigre Orchestra on reaching the US in 1977, has died in New York state at…
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Hong Kong orchestra quits Tanglewood
No reason given (just watch the nightly news). Here’s the Tangle’d version: The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has canceled its two U.S. tour engagements, including…
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American Airlines breaks guitars
It’s not just United. Read this from classical guitarist Jonathan Dotson: Coming home from Madrid yesterday I witnessed a young man, probably no older than…
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Mahler symphony aborts Macron plan
A performance of Mahler’s eighth symphony at the Chorégie d’Orange has provoked a change of heart in the French culture minister Franck Roester, who had…
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