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When Chicago prohibited encores
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (76+ words) Conductor Neeme Järvi, 89, loves his encores. Some orchestras, however, forbid encores for budgetary reasons: ‘Let’s say each musician gets $100 per minute. The orchestra management may say, don’t play encores. In Chicago, for example, encores are not allowed.’ Is that still…...
End of the road for the Great German Symphony
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (151+ words) From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The death of Philip Roth in 2018 was widely mourned as the end of the Great American Novel. Not of the literary novel as a genre but of the expectation that some day, somehow,…...
Belgium loses one of its last classical record stores
14+ hour, 36+ min ago (93+ words) The Brussels haven known as La Boîte à Musique shut down today. The business will continue online and staff will still be available to advise on phone but the inexorable disapperance of the record store as a social entity is…...
Banned Russian violinist shares a desire for an end to the war
14+ hour, 25+ min ago (62+ words) The Putin-friendly Vadim Repin, cancelled for a second time by a US orchestra, has signed off on a statement that suggests his uncritical support has softened. Repin endorsed this statement: Conductor Robert Franz, who died a year ago… The orchestra…...
Opera postpones season because bits are falling off
14+ hour, 45+ min ago (80+ words) The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has delayed it season opening by several weeks becuase ‘structural defects in the stage tower are jeopardizing performances.’ Madama Butterfly has been calcelled along with several nights of Meistersinger and Traviata. The city recently cancelled…...
A rare French treat for horn and orchestra
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (42+ words) Radovan Vlatković is professor of horn at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Conductor Robert Franz, who died a year ago… Congratulations to Joana Mallwitz on the birth of… The shy and retiring chief conductor of the… The musicians have voted unanimously to…...
Soloists flock to free Boston-area festival
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (86+ words) Carriage House Violins are putting on a chamber series with the cream of America’s string players: Paul Watkins (Emerson Quartet) Amit Peled Astrid Schween (Juilliard Quartet) top violinists: Stefan Jackiw Nikki and Timothy Chooi Ani Kavafian Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet)…...
Poles appoint a Lebanese chief conductor
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (116+ words) Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw has chosen Bassem Akiki as its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. Arriving in Poland from Beirut twenty years ago, Akiki graduated from the Cracow Music Academy and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw....
Anyone got spare skis for the opera?
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (92+ words) Montpellier Opera has put out a call for donations of ski wear. It is preparing a December premiere of The Fairy’s Kiss by Ukrainian composer Theodore Akimenko, conducted by Kirill Karabits, but it lacks anough gear for the chorus. It…...
Crunching the numbers in Boston
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (232+ words) Analyst Thomas W. Dinsmore has been busy again with the abacus. Fiscal Year 2026. On Monday, August 31, the BSO closed the books on fiscal year 2026. CEO Chad Smith already knows whether the orchestra ran a surplus or a deficit; he will hide…...