Sad news: violinist Barry Griffiths – leader of the BBC Northern, Royal Philharmonic and English National Opera Orchestras – has died at the age of 81.
Barry Griffiths [pictured, left] recorded Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, André Previn conducting, for Telarc.
Colston Hall, after Edward Colston (1636-1721), “an English merchant, philanthropist and Tory Member of Parliament who was involved in the Atlantic slave trade”, has been renamed as Bristol Beacon.
Postponed: Van Cliburn International Piano Competition to Move From May 2021 to June 2022.
FORT WORTH, Texas, September 22, 2020—The Cliburn announces today that the sixteenth edition of its flagship Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will now be held June 2–18, 2022, at Bass Performance Hall and Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU, in Fort Worth,...
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY HOSTS POP-UP FOOD PANTRY AT LINCOLN CENTER WITH LIVE MUSIC.
NEW YORK – On Thursday, Food Bank For New York City will host a pop-up food pantry at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to distribute fresh produce and shelf-stable items to approximately 500 of New York’s families in need. The distribution will also include...
IGOR LEVIT UPDATE – AWARDED GERMAN ORDER OF MERIT & GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2020.
Awarded Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and Awarded Gramophone Classical Music Award 2020 – Instrumental Category It’s a big day for Igor Levit as two announcements were made this morning: From...
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Just heard this on The Goon Show [BBC Radio 4 Extra, midday broadcast]
L-R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe “Why is that gas stove wearing a hat?” “Because it keeps going out.”
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONTINUES GROUND-BREAKING MENTORING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND COMPOSERS.
LPO Young Composers (left), Foyle Future Firsts (middle), LPO Junior Artists (right) The London Philharmonic Orchestra today [22 September 2020] reveals the details of the young artists and composers that will join its three dynamic mentoring and professional...
CATEGORY WINNERS REVEALED FOR THE GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2020.
Thomas Adès, Les Arts Florissants, Boston SO, Elim Chan, CBSO, Joyce DiDonato, Vilde Frang, Benjamin Grosvenor, Igor Levit, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Sandrine Piau are among the artists and ensembles recognised by awards One of these recordings will go on to win...
Tito Muñoz steps in for Matthias Pintscher to conduct this week’s DSO Digital Concerts.
Thursday’s program features Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with DSO Principal Cello Wei Yu and Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto; Friday night brings Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Takemitsu’s Archipelago S. Watch DSO Digital Concerts...