Jun 7, 2026 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
“In the autumn of 1954, Ralph Vaughan Williams visited America to serve as a visiting professor at Cornell University, where he delivered the lectures that later became his book, The Making of Music. During this trip, he also conducted.” [RVW Society]...
Jun 7, 2026 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) Saturday, June 6, 2026 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin When Martinů moved, via Paris, from his native Czech soil to the USA, living there from 1941 to 1953, the already-prolific composer started to write...
Jun 5, 2026 | News, Videos
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, 2014. February 1979, Berlin. LSO/Previn; May 1977. Janine Jansen & Sascha Maisky, violins, Yuri Bashmet, viola, Mischa Maisky,...
Jun 4, 2026 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
Gerald Hoffnung’s caricature of Leopold Stokowski (top). The other is of Ansermet. Edward Johnson writes… Back in the 1940s while the war was raging, the US War Department arranged a series of recordings that were specially designed for their forces...
