12+ hour, 5+ min ago  (73+ words) The Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire has appointed Jueun Jeong from Seoul as its new concertmaster. She is presently guest principal second violinist with Simon Rattle's Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra is based in Angers and Nantes....

16+ hour, 23+ min ago  (199+ words) The Irish conductor asks a simple question in the wake of the Boston furore: what can we learn from the most powerful conductor i living memory? As the orchestral world continues to reel from the inexplicable and mishandled ending of…...

16+ hour, 37+ min ago  (60+ words) From a chamber concert by Sir James MacMillan, performed by The Sixteen and conducted by Harry Christophers, with the Britten Sinfonia and soloists Elizabeth Watts and Matthew McKinney. The British conductor and his Bavarian Radio Symphony" The orchestra issued confirmation…...

16+ hour, 33+ min ago  (76+ words) Back in the 70s critics complained of a Baader-Meinhof tendency in opera design; dark brown on a black background. This season, it's dark blue. Exemplar 1: Lohengrin at Baden Baden. Exemplar 2: Tristan at the Met Exemplar 3: Siegfried at Covent Garden The British…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (65+ words) The composer, now 92, will be present for what has long been considered an unperformable work. If done the way John Foulds intended, his A World Requiem requires 1,250 singers and instrumentalists. From Mike Roylance, principal tuba at the Boston" Cadenza, the…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (109+ words) The British conductor and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra have joined a wave of European dismay at the treatment of Andris Nelsons by the Boston Symphony board. The Munich musicians say, in part: "We greatly regret the termination of Andris…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (173+ words) The conductor is loading the Bolshoi and Mariinsky orchstras onto a train and taking them around the Putin provinces. Over 29 days, the musicians will travel over 20,000 kilometers by charter train and visit approximately 40 Russian cities. On May 2, the orchestra will…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (142+ words) The family of Jean Sibelius have called in lawyers after a budget store launched the campaign below. According to the Helsingin Sanomat, the heirs are affronted both by the image and by the slogan, "The price is music to my…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (154+ words) The concert pianist Filippo Gorini has initiated a tour of jails in the US to play for inmates. Oregon is the only state that gave him permission. Gorini played at Eastern Oregon Correctional Facility on March 13 and at Coffee Creek…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (167+ words) Gustavo Dudamel, the world-renowned music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will deliver the keynote address at USC's 143rd commencement ceremony May 14 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. "Gustavo Dudamel has transformed how this city experiences music," USC President…...