Listen to Tchaikovsky banter with his friends in a 130-year-old recording

Not even the great Tchaikovsky was above taking part in a publicity stunt for the latest revolutionary recording technology.

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike, reject pay cut demand

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians are on strike after unanimously rejecting calls for a 15-percent pay cuts, pension changes and staffing cuts they say are proposed by management.

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Drugs haul found on Copenhagen Opera House roof

Police in the Danish capital Copenhagen have revealed that they seized 75kg (165lbs) of marijuana found on the roof of the city's prestigious Opera House earlier this year.

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Manhattan mechanical engineering students help to design rare saxophone mouthpiece with 3-D printer

The unique sound of a more than 170-year-old saxophone is one that few people today have had the opportunity to hear. Invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, only 275 of the originals still exist around the world, with 65 tenor (classical) saxophones

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Saying goodbye to the pain of ballet

Carlos Acosta is one of the world's leading ballet dancers. Next week he bids farewell to classical ballet performing at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Orchestras need to get smarter, shouldn't change for the young, says visting trumpeter

For Balio, principal trumpet for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the past 15 years, finding that will involves a renewed appreciation of why classical music works and what it requires. “There's not a lack of demand for classical music.

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Against all odds, rising opera star fulfills dream of singing at the Met - CBS News

With a rich, robust voice and a presence commanding the stage, it’s easy to see why 6-foot-5 Ryan Speedo Green is considered one of the world’s most promising stars of opera, gracing top stages in Europe and the U.S. But his improbable rise to the heights of one of the most elite of all the arts has its roots in poverty and violence, reports CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford. Green, 30, said his father was largely absent in his life, and he had a “volatile relationship” with his mother growin

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Portland Symphony Orchestra receives $600000 grant for music education

The Portland Symphony Orchestra has received a $600,000 gift that will provide more money for musicians and for music education in Portland schools.

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Violin virtuoso siblings perform together for first time in 25 years

It has been 25 years since Australian siblings Stanley, Daniel and Kyli Dodds — all world-renowned violin players — performed together.

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Telegraph Quartet Wins Naumburg Chamber Music Competition

San Francisco's Telegraph Quartet is only three years old, but it's already nationally known, and now it has received a major new honor. Last Friday, the Telegraph won the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's 2016 Chamber Music Competition in New York.

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Duped New York Concert Audience Gives Standing Ovation to North Korean Propaganda

Orchestra dupes New Yorkers with pro-regime music; sounds ‘militaristic’

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New York Missing Person's Alert Issued for Student Double Bassist [PLEASE SHARE]

lAn alert has today been issued in New York for 25 year old Boston University music student, Zachery Camhi – who has not been in contact with his family and friends for more than 9 days. He was last seen at approximately 5am on September 18th

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Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring has been given an unexpected makeover - thanks to some enterprising musicians armed with… err… melodicas?

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Where are the women timps?

Dianne Winsor has notified us that Actea Jimenez, 24, of Holland’s Het Gelders Orkest, has won the Solo Timpani position in the orchestra of Bilbao, defeating 47 contenders.

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Sibelius in Liverpool, 1905: 'He is saying things that have never been said in music before'

From the classical archive, 4 December 1905: Sibelius’s first public appearance in England, conducting his symphony no 1, and Finlandia

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Jeremy Corbyn plays the violin with children in Liverpool -

. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is given a violin lesson by 10 year old Jessica Kelly during a visit to Faith Primary School in Liverpool, where he met children taking part in the In Harmony project.

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Julius Eastman: Radical composer who ended up sleeping rough

Black, gay and working-class, he was forgotten after his death, but his music is being revived

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Boston Music Student With Bipolar Disorder Has Been Missing in New York City for a Week

Camhi, a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student and classical musician, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013 and, according to friends, might have been slipping on his medication.

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Watch when an orchestra 'played' AI and big data at the Louvre

Accenture has teamed up with a coder, an orchestral composer and a datavis company to put artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to music, in a project called Symphonologie.

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The Ulster Orchestra will mark its golden anniversary with 50 pop-up performances in one day

The Ulster Orchestra will mark its golden anniversary with 50 pop-up performances in and around Belfast

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Did you know: This Haydn minuet and trio sounds exactly the same played backwards as it does forwards

An enterprising YouTuber has shown that the minuet and trio movements from Haydn's Symphony No.47 sound the same backwards and forwards

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Gilbert and Sullivan's original Yeomen of the Guard score published

The full orchestral score for Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Yeomen of the Guard is being published for the first time - 128 years after it was written.

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Sydney Opera House: How to fix an Australian icon

Plans to renovate one of the most beautiful buildings in the world are being compared to performing cosmetic surgery on the Queen.

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John Williams: I could have been a cellist

The Brazilian classical guitar site, Guitar Co-op, has a remarkably frank and comprehensive interview with the last of the guitar lions, the accomplished John Williams.

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After 70 years Radio 3 needs a rethink. It’s time to unleash the composers

The station’s audience is too narrow. But worse, it is failing to channel the new spirit in classical music.

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Music in conflict: 26 iconic images

In the face of adversity and in the toughest of circumstances, music can lift the human spirit and bring people together like no other force on the planet.

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Violinists: the incredible Maxim Vengerov has this advice, just for you

At this month’s Classic FM Live, we asked him to share his top tip for getting the most out of practice and the piece of advice he’d give to all aspiring musicians

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#FairInternet4Performers - Press Release | Brussels, 14 September 2016.

Draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is a lost opportunity to make a real difference for Europe's performers

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Two brothers arrested for the murder of Irish musical director John Donnelly in Turkey

Mr Donnelly was a popular amateur music director and was involved with organisations including The Association of Irish Musical Societies and the Wexford Light Opera Society.

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Ciminelli, two execs charged with bribery, bid rigging

He chairs the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Board of Trustees and serves as a trustee at the Albright-Knox Gallery

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Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra appoints new guest conductors

Fischer is a Swiss conductor highly regarded in Asia and internationally. He served as chief conductor and honorary guest conductor of Japan's Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and is music director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra in the United States

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SPCO adds new principal violin -

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has named Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana its newest principal violin.

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International orch goes crowdfunding to buy new clarinets

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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Flautist Sir James Galway, 76, answers our health quiz

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Helensburgh musician joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Felix Tanner studied at St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh, shortly before Higham, Tanner has gone on to play for all the notable British orchestras and became a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London in 2012.

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Monti's Czardas played by The Kanneh-Masons

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Muti: CSO leaders can do more to keep the institution as vibrant as orchestra's musicmaking

"The danger is that sometimes those who run symphony orchestras forget that orchestral musicians are artists, not mere workers or employees," said Muti, who's beginning his seventh season as CSO music director.

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The New Classical: how the next generation of composers and labels are challenging classical music's status quo -

“What happens in the space where genres, sounds and ideas collide?” asked the Barbican when it invited the German pianist and composer Nils Frahm to put together a weekend of music in July. Here's what happened..

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From the classical archive May 1856: Clara Schumann - a musical genius of the highest order

nWith the dreamy Chopin, she is not so much en rapport: and as regards the interpretation of her husband's music, all we will venture to say at present is, fortunate the composer that has such an interpreter.

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Queensland Symphony Orchestra violinist and stepsons killed in New Zealand car crash - ABC Online

A senior member of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and his two stepsons have been killed in road accident in New Zealand. A rental car collided with a truck at Huntly in the Waikato district in the North Island yesterday,

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A football game breaks out at orchestra concert - (blog)

That was apparently quite the stunning halftime show at the new Vikings stadium last evening when the Minnesota Orchestra played as the entertainment.

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Handel and Haydn Society raises more than $13.5 million

The Handel and Haydn Society will mark the opening of its 202nd season on an auspicious note Friday, as the orchestra celebrates the conclusion of a capital campaign that raised more than $13.5 million from more than 600 donors.

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A Facebook First for New York Philharmonic: Streaming Its 175th Anniversary Opener - New York Times

The New York Philharmonic will open its 175th anniversary season on Wednesday a little differently than its forebears in 1842: For the first time it will stream the concert on Facebook Live.

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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announces 6-year contract with musicians

That was good news announced Saturday at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s season-opening concert in Kleinhans Music Hall. BPO musicians have reached an agreement with the orchestra’s management on a new six-year contract.

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Arts Council to impose quantitative measures of arts quality

Arts Council England is forging ahead with plans to impose a standardised system for measuring artistic quality on its NPOs, despite a lukewarm sector response and warnings that this will require a “quantum change” in organisational attitudes to data.

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JOYOUS: this is what happens when the viola section gets bored during Bolero

Bolero is one of the most iconic orchestral pieces ever written, known for its inventive repetition, its driving rhythm and its superb use of dynamics. And one of the best things about it is that every instrument gets a chance to shine… Well, apart ...

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This is the oldest known recording of an opera singer

Recorded in 1889, bass Peter Schram sings excerpts from the role of Leporello, one of the main characters in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

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Musician misses home but story ends on a positive note

Marja Gaynor loves the spontaneity of Irish musicians. In her native Finland musical gatherings are pre-planned, the violinist says.

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We asked some of the greatest musicians in the world how they deal with nerves. Here’s what they said

We spoke to conductor Antonio Pappano, tenor Joseph Calleja, sitar player Anoushka Shankar and tenor Joseph Calleja and asked them for their top tips for tackling those pesky butterflies How musicians deal with nerves

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BBC Radio 3 at 70: not just pizzicati and the Proms

Its aims were mocked when it launched, but Radio 3 has continued to nurture new music, drama and poetry alongside the classics. Controller Alan Davey celebrates a unique broadcasting institution

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Paris Opera Ballet lambasted by auditors for €90,000 taxi bill

Report also reveals ‘sudden progression’ in amount spent on meals by just four staff members – to about €52,000 in 2014

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Gramophone Awards 2016: pianist Igor Levit wins Recording of the Year

Rachel Podger and Andris Nelsons also take awards this year, while Christa Ludwig was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award

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Longtime music director of Kalamazoo's Symphony Orchestra is leaving

Raymond Harvey has become a familiar face in Kalamazoo. He's been conducting the state's third largest professional orchestra for 18 years.

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Houston Teen Wins $25,000 for World-Class Saxophone

Ellis Hamilton will receive a $25,000 Davidson Fellows scholarship on Wednesday in Washington D.C. for his music portfolio, The Music in Me.

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Cleveland Orchestra looking for loyalty with flexible new 'Members Club' subscription plan - cleveland.com (blog)

Most in this region are partial to the Cleveland Orchestra. What they aren't quite yet is loyal. Enter the "Members Club," a new style of subscription plan announced Thursday, Sept. 15, aimed at converting occasional ticket buyers

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The problem with perfection... - Classical-Music.com (blog)

Violinists became more and more specialised, and it suddenly became rare for professional classical musicians also to be composers, and vice versa, and improvising went out of fashion.

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49 sentences all musicians will find intensely annoying

If you're a musician, these will make you curl up on the floor and weep. We've all heard them before, but it doesn't make it any less painful...

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Vienna Philharmonic grabs 1st flute from rival orch

Aged 39, she played for ten years as solo flute in the Konzerthaus orchestra in Berlin before joining the Vienna Symphony. She will be elected to full membership of the Vienna Philharmonic in three years' time, another small step towards gender equality.

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Stirling Orchestra reaches grand final of BBC competition

The four other orchestras featured in the series were North Devon Sinfonia, London Gay Symphony Orchestra, Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra and Birmingham-based The People's Orchestra.

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How losing an arm started a saxophone player on an incredible journey

In late 2012, musician Neill Duncan was given a stark ultimatum by the doctor treating the cancer in his left arm.

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Flute sound breathes life into ravaged old Aleppo city

In the eerily ravaged old city of Aleppo, nothing indicates the existence of life, but the flute sound of a 70-year-old man, known as Abu Nadim.

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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association Cancels More Concerts ... - CBS Local

CBS LocalFort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association Cancels More Concerts ...CBS LocalThe Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association announced today the cancellation of two more upcoming concerts due to the strike by its musicians.Letters: Readers respond on Fort Worth Symphony | The Star ...Fort Worth Star TelegramSan Diego Symphony hires new VPThe San Diego Union-TribuneFort Worth Symphony Orchestra Cancels More Concerts After StrikeNBC 5 Dallas-Fort WorthPeople's World -The Source Weekly (press

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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra strike

The cause is the shamefully low revenue from contributions and grants necessary for the maintenance of any symphony orchestra.

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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra To Appoint New Director Of Orchestra And Hall Operations

As Buffalo's cultural ambassador, the Grammy Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the leadership of music director JoAnn Falletta presents more than 100 concerts each year.

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Syrian migrant musicians sell out shows in Germany

Their recent concert fused together a mix of classical European music, classical Arab music and Arabic folkloric music. The musicians' hope is that their concerts will give the European audience a reference point to understand Syrian music and culture

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Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention - and it sounds incredible

The viola organista was dreamt up by Leonardo da Vinci but until recently it had never been built. Now, a Polish instrument-maker has painstakingly created the first ever example

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Cleveland Orchestra associate conductor Brett Mitchell scores top post at Colorado Symphony

Now it's clear exactly where the associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra is headed: to the podium of the Colorado Symphony. On Monday, the group announced the appointment of Mitchell as its next music director, for a four-year term officially

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Oliver Mears to be Royal Opera House's director of opera

The 37-year-old has led Northern Ireland Opera for the past six years; Antonio Pappano hails his ‘genuine passion for the art form’Oliver Mears, the artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera who once staged Britten Noye’s Fludde in Belfast zoo as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, is to be the new director of opera at Covent Garden.

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Watch this violinist absolutely nail the Mario theme (AND all the sound effects)

Everyone loves Koji Kondo’s iconic Mario Brothers theme, but have you ever heard it played on solo violin, complete with sound effects?

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When a volunteer in an Edinburgh care home heard a man playing folk music on the piano, it started a journey that would lead to the 'lost songs' of St Kilda being performed on the abandoned island

St Kilda is the most isolated inhabited island group in the UK; it's 40 miles west of Scotland's Isle of Lewis, the outermost of the Outer Hebrides.

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Sour note as opera outfit dismisses singers

Despite sold-out performances of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, the Cape Town Opera (CTO) has hit a sour note with 12 chorus singers fighting their dismissal in a dispute over money and contracts.

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Japan's Tomoki Sakata wins Ferenc Liszt Int'l Piano Competition

The second prize went to Sergey Belyavskiy (23) of Russia. Leon Bernsdorf (23) of Germany placed third.

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Meet the Royal Opera House's newest star

They are all winners of this year's Fanfare competition, having penned a 25 second tune to be played around the Opera House before performances.

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Stolen plaque replaced to mark where composer lived in Hereford

The blue plaque at Plas Gwyn, where the famous composer lived between 1904 and 1911, was stolen last year.

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Musicians, orchestra continue labor talks beyond Sept. 12

The negotiating committee for players updated the orchestra's rank-and-file membership late Friday on the play-and-talk development, which does not formally extend the contract to a specific date, but keeps musicians working under the current terms.

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Last Night of the Proms in the shadow of Brexit: 'I'll feel a bit conflicted'

Performers and music lovers say this year’s concert might have a different feel, and some are uneasy about the futureFor once in his life, the oboist, conductor and Proms regular Nicholas Daniel will not be tuning into the Last Night party at the Royal Albert Hall. “I won’t watch it.” he said. “I’ll feel just a bit conflicted, quite honestly. “I will feel conflicted between my love of Elgar, my love of British music, my love of the Proms and my love of Britain as part of Europe.”

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Neil Black obituary

The fine playing of the oboist Neil Black, who has died aged 84, enabled him to make the most of the opportunities presented by concert life in the decades following the second world war. He joined the newly founded National Youth Orchestra in 1948, stayed for its first three years, and later became principal oboe of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1958-60).

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Classical music becoming middle class, committee hears

“It is looking like it is becoming more and more a middle class and advantaged profession,” he told the committee.

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Violinist forced to store unprotected instrument at his feet on Vueling flight - The Strad

Young violinist José Manuel Jiménez García was forced to store his unprotected instrument between his legs and at his feet on a recent Vueling Flight. ... This is how my violin travelled thanks to the understanding and effectiveness of Vueling Airlines ...

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4 myths about classical music debunked - The Seattle Times

MYTH NO. 4: No one who looks like me will be there...

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So You Have $500 Million? Here's a Shopping List for the Philharmonic's Hall. - New York Times

Of course they need to fix the acoustics. And the architects and designers planning the coming gut renovation of David Geffen Hall must also make weighty decisions about a host of questions: how to reconfigure the hall; how many people it should seat; whether to include a pipe organ; and whether to add a smaller space for more intimate, experimental concerts.

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This is what happens when one of the world’s greatest conductors stumbles across a public piano

Riccardo Muti was sightseeing in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples and happened to see an unused piano… you know what happens next.

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South African tenor Johan Botha dies at age 51

Tenor Johan Botha, whose light but muscular voice dazzled audiences at the world's top operatic stages in a wide range of roles, died Thursday in Vienna. He was 51.

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Musicians: Philadelphia Orchestra management's initial offer is 'regressive'

Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra are negotiating to regain their place as among the highest-paid members of U.S. orchestras, while management has offered minimal raises in talks over a new contract.

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Symphony Orchestra receives $100000 grant

The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Gilchrist Foundation through Security National Bank of Sioux City.

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A composer, a piano, and a concert at the edge of the world

Until the composer James MacMillan put his fingers to the keys of a piano, playing to a select audience of 12 (and hundreds of somewhat standoffish sheep), even this instrument had never been heard on this tiny archipelago.

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Pro-EU protest planned for Last Night of the Proms

Traditional union jacks expected to be replaced by EU flags as activists launch crowdfunded show of defiance

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Fort Worth Symphony Musicians Vote To Authorize Strike

Musicians from the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra voted Tuesday night to authorize a strike. This comes after the musicians rejected a proposed agreement with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association

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Elizabeth Fayette appointed Vega String Quartet first violinist

The Vega Quartet – which alongside Fayette features violinist Jessica Shuang Wu, violist Yinzi Kong and cellist Guang Wang – has toured throughout Asia, Europe and North America

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra appoints three new front-desk string players

The orchestra welcomes a new principal cello, principal second violin and sub principal viola

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The shortlived Proms ban on Land of Hope and Glory, From the classical archive, 6 June 1969

From the classical archive, 6 June 1969: the patriotic anthems Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia! have been banished from the Last Night of the PromsLand of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia! have been banished from their traditional place on the Last Night of the Proms.As William Glock, the BBC’s controller of music explained, the aim has been to make the programme “attractive to 40 million viewers in Europe” as well as to those in this country.

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Composers on the state of classical music in Ireland today

Jane O'Leary, Deirdre Gribbin, Ian Wilson, Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley, Andrew Hamilton

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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Weighing a Vote to Go on Strike

The cuts we have seen since 2010 threaten to undo all the work that donors, musicians and citizens have done over the last 100 years to build the FWSO into the world class orchestra our city deserves.” The musicians' union leaders said

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Now’s the time for female conductors | Letters

It is time to bring in parity now. The BBC Proms is an obvious place to start; they have blatantly favoured the “old boys’ network” for far too long.

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Mesmerising: watch the hypnotic process of how a tuba is made

Ever wondered how the complex shapes and lines of a majestic tuba end up coming together? This video will show you in under three minutes

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Violinist Maxim Vengerov appointed visiting professor at London's Royal College of Music

London's Royal College of Music has appointed Maxim Vengerov as Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin. The virtuoso performer and conductor will visit the RCM at least three times a year in the newly created role, supported by the Polonsky Foundation

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Polish Teen Wins Eurovision Young Musicians 2016

This year's Eurovision Young Musicians competition for classical musicians between the ages of 11 and 19 was won by Łukasz Dyczko, an 18-year-old saxophonist from Poland.

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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra musicians reject proposed contract

The musicians rejected a proposed contract that included income cuts. A strike authorization vote has been scheduled for Wednesday.

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Revenge at last for Germans as Berlin Philharmonic take on London musicians in friendly football match

The match was organised through London’s Adrian Bending, who met some of the German players in the European Union Youth Orchestra, which was pulled back from the brink of extinction earlier this year after securing the short-term funding it needed to survive.

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Korean Conductor, Chung Myung-whun, Becomes Music Director For Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra - Korea Portal (English Edition)

The legendary South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun has become the music director for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. According to the orchestra's website, Chung has began working as the music director of the orchestra on Thursday.

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Women conductors are spurned by choirs

Music students take part in an all-female conducting class taught by Alice Farnham (centre left) at Morley College in London.

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Japanese violinist wins Stern prize - Shanghai Daily (subscription)

SEVEN of the world's finest young musicians were honored last night at the first Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition awards ceremony. The first prize of US$100,000 went to 30-year-old Mayu Kishima of Japan

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Why Tate Modern's new collection of musical instruments is striking an unfamiliar chord

It’s an instrument - but how do you play it and what does it sound like? The discovery of a stash of obscure instruments has inspired a performance artwork at Tate Modern

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Why La Fura’s Norma is playing with fire at Covent Garden

With its chilling nods to druidic practices, Islamic State and hardline Catholicism, La Fura dels Baus’s new production of Bellini’s Norma packs a political punch – but how will it fair with the purists?

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Cologne gets ready for Eurovision Young Musicians 2016

Each participating musician will perform a piece of classical music of their choice, up to six minutes and half minutes long, accompanied by the WDR Symphony Orchestra.

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Inside Dubai's new $330 million concert venue

After three years of construction, the Dubai Opera house has officially opened its doors, hosting its first ever concert performance on Wednesday.

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Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro's Baton -

Then the conductor Marin Alsop offered a word of warning after one of the women she was coaching at a master class here made a delicate flourish while leading the orchestra.

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Six of the best...child prodigies

We look at six young musicians who are amazing audiences with their precocious talent

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San Diego Symphony musicians sign new 5-year pact

The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association and the American Federation of Musicians, Local 325, on Wednesday ratified a new, five-year agreement that extends through June 2021.

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Cape Town Ensemble perform in Scottish parliament for culture summit – video

The South African singers were in Scotland to perform in a critically acclaimed touring production of Mozart’s Così fan Tutte. But there were accusations of financial exploitation behind the scenes over the dismissal of 12 black chorus members – now performing as the ensemble – after they challenged their employer

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: 'Classical music isn't elitist – the problem is it's expensive'

The Young Musician of the Year has had to balance revising for exams with preparing for his Royal Festival Hall concerto debut. And then there’s finding time to beat his brother at football ...It’s an understatement to say that Sheku Kanneh-Mason has had a busy few months.

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Why does LA need its own summer classical music festival? For answers, look 6000 miles away

At that other prestigious address for classical music in summertime, Lucerne, Switzerland, posters and program books are centered with the words PRIMA DONNA in large type, the I being a graphic of a conductor's baton

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The Great Orchestra Challenge: the TV show uncovering the UK's part-time musicians - The Guardian (blog)

Amateur orchestras in the UK would give very short shrift to that idea, and rightly so. In difficult economic times, they continue to shine as one of our great cultural jewels.

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This is the oldest melody in existence.

The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It’s the oldest surviving melody and is over 3400 years old.

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Only one Brit in BBC New Generation artists

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Former Berlin Philharmonic principal cellist Eberhard Finke has died aged 96

Eberhard Finke, former principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic who performed under Wilhelm Furtwängler, has died at the age of 96. Born in Bremen in 1920, Finke studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

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