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Seattle Symphony conductor and music director Gerard Schwarz broke his left leg and ankle last Thursday in a skiing accident. He faces surgery later this week, the SSO reports, with full recovery expected. In fact, the athletic Schwarz was conducting a recording session this morning, seated. He returned from the slopes Friday, thinking it was just a strain, but discovered the breaks at the doctor. He's now mastering a new art--crutches. 
In the early 1930s, the great composer, conductor and concert pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff performed in San Antonio. According to "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music," by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda (first published in 1956, reissued in 2001 by Indiana University Press), Rachmaninoff was suffering from a bad back and had to be assisted onto the stage. Since he did not want his condition to be a distraction, he asked that the curtain be raised and lowered while he was at the piano. Where was the performance held, when did it occur, who sponsored it, was it a solo recital or was an orchestra involved, and which works were on the program? Were there any reviews?
WILLIAM Boughton, founder and principal conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed as principal conductor of the prestigious New Haven Symphony Orchestra in the USA. Boughton beat off over 70 applicants for the coveted job. The orchestra boasts a concert hall with a capacity of 3,000. Boughton and his family are moving during July from their home in Wycombe, having left Malvern after over 25 years at the helm of the ESO.
The combination of soft-spoken English charm and superior musicianship has made Andrew Manze a star in the concert world. Manze (say it MAHN-zay) is conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music and the Helsingborg (Sweden) Symphony and a renowned Baroque violinist on his own. He spoke with Rocky music writer Marc Shulgold about his Friday appearance at Gates Concert Hall with renowned fortepianist Richard Egarr, part of their first U.S. tour together since 2002.
Nina Totenberg: Lessons from My Father My father started teaching when he was 11 years old. His first student was 9. Ever since, he has loved it and learned from it. He once told me that you have to figure out how you do something in order to teach it to someone else. And if your system doesn't work for that someone else, you have to adapt it until it does. Sometimes that means re-fingering an entire concerto for a student to suit that person's physical and technical capabilities.
Jeffrey Tate will become the new principal conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, replacing Andrey Boreyko, who quit unexpectedly for reasons unclear, reports Die Welt of Berlin. The English-born Tate is likely to assume the position next spring. His management will probably confirm the appointment no earlier than January, according to MusicalAmerica.com
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, especially in America, is not just a famous musician, he is the famous musician for millions of people - the personification of classical music." The Guardian
Daniel Barenboim, the "Israeli" orchestra conductor every Jew-hater loves, has sunk to a new low in his career. The Associated Press reports that next year he plans to bring his East-West Divan Orchestra, a mixed group of Israeli and Arab musicians from various countries in the region, to play in the Berlin stadium used in the 1936 Olympics to salute Hitler. According to Playbill, he is going to play the first act of Wagner's Die Walküre.
By BERNARD HOLLAND... Kiri Te Kanawa’s principal asset as a musical artist is lovability, and those who came to hear this New Zealand soprano sing at Carnegie Hall.
They got their maestro. He got his orchestra. And Detroit has a new musical leader, whose reputation stretches from the American heartland to the music capitals of Europe and the Far East. Leonard Slatkin, 63, one of the most gifted American conductors of his generation, has been named the 12th music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra after a five-year search. Slatkin, the first American-born conductor to lead the orchestra in 60 years, succeeds Neeme Järvi, who stepped down in 2005. | Download Detroit Symphony Tracks
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