June 19, 2018 / 12:00 PM
June 19, 2018 / 12:00 PM
Music Times > Tour Journals
A rare Stradivarius viola, famously owned by Baron MacDonald of the U.K. in the 19th century, will be auctioned by Sotheby's this spring. Sotheby's has set a starting price of $45 million for the instrument, which is far and away the highest price ...
Singing nuns are everywhere, it seems. Sister Cristina Scuccia recently appeared on the Italian version of 'The Voice' and astonished the judges by singing Alicia Keys' "No One."
I imagine most of these tours across the continental U.S. only warrant a mere look into a country almost entirely discovered and tramped. There probably aren't many that grant a unique look or interest into anything too unfamiliar.
So, apparently Shanghai is going to be the next big theater center in the world. New York has Broadway, London has the West End, and now Dreamworks is piling $2.4 billion into the Chinese city to make it a third entertainment destination to rival ...
As is being reported, it's not yet a done deal for Osmo Vanska to return to the Minnesota Orchestra as music director. But who would be a good choice?
In a shock move, The Full Monty is to end its West End run early and will close. The musical had gotten some good reviews and bagged an Olivier Award nomination, plus the previous musical theater incarnation of the hit film had been a success. The ...
Before YouTube, it was unlikely that a nine-year-old would teach herself to sing opera, or a young Norwegian girl would learn to croon a jazz standard like Billie Holiday. But YouTube has become a repository for music of all styles and ethnicities, ...
A very interesting piece comes to us from Ted Gioia at The Daily Beast about music criticism, or rather its death, or rather its inability or unwillingness to use technical language or display, you know, any kind of actual knowledge. It's especially ...
In the wake of the success of Gustavo Dudamel, or maybe more accurately in the wake of the work of El Sistema scion Jose Antonio Abreu, there has been an explosion in the number of top appointments going to Spanish or Latin American conductors. ...
Burt Hara, principal clarinetist of the Minnesota Orchestra for 26 years, announced his resignation last week in a letter to his colleagues. Hara will retain his current position as associate principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He ...
With SXSW having come to a close for our little folk quintet, the band and I took shelter somewhere in the solitude of the Rockies (scaling the Grand Tetons with a 15-passenger Ford and useless trailer attachment).
But performing a piece that at times seems to require the violin to disintegrate along with the shuttle is not enough for the restless and questing Kopatchinskaja. For her 37th birthday later this month, she will give the premiere of her first violin ...
A Vaughan Williams masterpiece is 100 this month. Has anyone noticed?
'Mozart in the Jungle,' the dramatization of Blair Tindall's tell-all memoir about sex and drugs in the New York music scene, apparently struck a chord with viewers. Amazon Studios recently announced that the pilot will be made into a 10-episode ...
