Post #1,200: Zurich: Tonhalle Orchestra concerts suspended: “Tonhalle Maag closed until further notice”.
Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle music director https://www.tonhalle-orchester.ch/en/
Oct 30 & Nov 1: Alan Gilbert leads NDR’s live 75th anniversary concerts.
Last month, Alan Gilbert scored “a true home run” (Klassik Begeistert) in the concerts that launched his second season as Chief Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Next he looks forward to leading two programs featuring Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony,...
Barbican launches Soundhouse: Intimacy and Distance.
Available online from 28 October 2020 – 17 January 2021 Today, the Barbican launches Soundhouse: Intimacy and Distance, a collaboration with audio-makers Nina Garthwaite (In The Dark) and Eleanor McDowall (Falling Tree Productions) that explores audio culture in a...
Royal Albert Hall to present socially-distanced test organ recital.
The Royal Albert Hall will hold a socially-distanced ‘test event’ for 1,300 people ahead of its Christmas season. Thomas Trotter’s hour-long organ recital on Friday 20 November will be the first public event held at the London venue since the...
Jools Holland announces two back to back Brighton shows this Christmas.
London, (28 October 2020) – Jools Holland today announced that he will perform two shows at the Brighton Centre “Not As You Know It’ on 12 December 2020 that will allow for a proper socially distanced performance and safe environment for his loyal fans. Together with...
Many Happy Returns to Dame Cleo Laine, 93 today.
Pictured with her husband, the late Sir John Dankworth
Many Happy Returns to composer & conductor Carl Davis, 84 today.
Many Happy Returns to composer Howard Blake, 82 today.
DSO celebrates conclusion of Orchestra Hall centennial with unveiling of artist Ken Aptekar’s “I hear an echo”.
Detroit, (October 27, 2020) – On Friday, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) unveiled a new painting by celebrated artist Ken Aptekar [pictured] titled “I hear an echo” (2020), which references Orchestra Hall’s opening in 1919 and DSO’s then-music director Ossip...