Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra withdrew from his remaining performances in Chicago in October due to illness (“extreme gastric distress”) The…
By now you have heard that the Philadelphia Orchestra has named the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Yah-NEEK Neh-ZAY Say-GUN) to be its new music director…
Critic Peter Dobrin was kind enough to publish a blurb in the Inquirer about the 25th anniversary of Eugene Ormandy’s burial. There was going to…
The late Buddy Rich is well known as an old school big band drummer. His wit won for him many appearances on the Johnny Carson…
Hot dog media darling conductor injures himself on the podium. Gustavo Dude I’m Ill does not return after minor injury. But associate conductor Lionel Bringuier…
Mei-Ann Chen has been named the new Music Director for the Memphis Symphony. She was assistant conductor for the Baltimore Symphony and Atlanta Symphony and…
Ben Rous has been named Assistant Conductor for the Phoenix Symphony. He was the assistant conductor for the Princeton Symphony. I knew him not only…