'“A pretty compliment, and bam, the dick pic right away,” as Le Canard enchaîné described it.'

Via VAN, François-Xavier Roth is the latest conductor to be accused of sexual misconduct. van-magazine.com/mag/francois-x…

I was at school when Mark Elder was chosen by The Hallé and started as a The Bridgewater Hall usher the day he conducted Tristan.

I've seen him heckled and I've damaged his furniture.

What will Manchester feel like without its 24-year craftsman conductor? classical-music.uk/opinion/articl…

INBOX: After years of instability, the Boston Symphony finally hires Nathan Cole of the LA Phil as its next concertmaster, only its fourth in the past century. bso.org/press/boston-s…

Sensational orchestra, sensationally conducted. Such a joy to hear such a beautifully balanced, blended sound, dark but never dense, from players so fully committed throughout.

Tonight’s agenda: Jakub Hrusa and the Bamberg Symphony play Wagner, Brahms, and Schumann to a dispiritingly empty Symphony Hall

““It’s been made pretty clear that there won’t be somebody hired who will be the classical music critic,” Kosman said on a recent phone call…” missionlocal.org/2024/04/a-cult…

Sir Colin Davis conducts the Concertgebouw in Haydn's Symphony No. 87, a glorious recording that is inexplicably still unavailable on CD/digital... youtube.com/watch?v=ZrVNSN…

Gary Ginstling: '... while not yet a year into my tenure as President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic, I am deeply concerned about not only the specifics but broader issues of institutional culture.'

Vineta Sareika-Völkner, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, is guest concertmaster today as the BSO continues its search

This afternoon’s agenda: Turangalila at the BSO

New for New York Magazine:

The 2nd woman hired to the brass section of New York Philharmonic, America's oldest orchestra, alleges she was raped by a colleague. She was not given tenure. Sources say she was offered an NDA. He remains in the orchestra. vulture.com/article/new-yo…

Maurizio Pollini conducts the Boston Symphony in Mozart in 1985. Supposedly. youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0ouq…

Really something, this. The Brahms bordered on savage.

This afternoon’s agenda: Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein play Janáček, Kurtág, Bartók, Adès, and Brahms.

Tonight’s guest in the concertmaster’s chair is Julianne Lee, currently on leave from the second violins because she just joined the Dover Quartet

Tonight’s agenda: Clyne, Wagner, Liszt and Scriabin at the Boston Symphony

'Mäkelä... already leads the Oslo Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris. He said he would step down from those ensembles when his contracts expire in 2027 so that he could focus on the orchestras in Chicago and Amsterdam.' nytimes.com/2024/04/02/art…

In VAN this week:

In the tributes to Maurizio Pollini, who died on March 23 aged 82, many remarked on his particular interpretative style, but few have grappled with his politics.

Olivia Giovetti remembers a musical voice in the wilderness.

van-magazine.com/mag/maurizio-p…

'There are no limits to what you can do on the piano.'

I wrote the New York Times obituary of Maurizio Pollini, the modernist master of his instrument, who died this morning at 82.
nytimes.com/2024/03/23/art…

La Scala announces the death of Maurizio Pollini, one of the great artists of the postwar period, and arguably the defining modernist master of the piano. He was 82.