Here is a sample of the headlines on articles published by Cadenza.work about the turmoil at the Boston Symphony Orchestra: “Boston Is on Fire. Its Orchestras Are Dying.” “They Fired the Best Conductor in America. The Evidence Points to Ideology.” “Fire Chad Smith. The Memo Is the Confession. The Orchestra Needs to Fight Back.” According […]
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Bach Festival Leipzig Stands By John Eliot Gardiner
Following allegations of inappropriate behavior against the conductor John Eliot Gardiner in June, the Bach Festival Leipzig informed employees today of its decision to continue its collaboration with the conductor. Gardiner will lead a performance of Bach’s B-Minor Mass at the festival in June 2027. The widely covered incident took place on June 16 at […]
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Life After Monsieur
On Tuesday, the newspaper Badische Neueste Nachrichten announced the death of Hans Florian Messner at the age of 84. Messner was best known in musical circles for his connection to Pierre Boulez, for whom he served as a personal valet for over 50 years. Messner hailed from South Tyrol, a German speaking region in the […]
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KPIs by Candlelight
Fever, developer of the Candlelight Concert series, is one of the most prominent voices in our space. With 8.2 million followers on Instagram, the Candlelight Concert series is also a dominant force in classical digital marketing. Even if you’ve not attended one of their many concerts, you’ll know what they look like: a quartet of […]
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Exclusive: Study Estimates Cost of Berlin Philharmonie Closure: €1.15 Billion
In 2032, the Philharmonie, the home of the Berlin Philharmonic, will close for major renovations—the year of the orchestra’s 150th anniversary. The project raises thorny questions: Where will the Berlin Philharmonic play in the interim? Given broad cuts to the city’s culture budget, how much will the renovations cost? How long will they take? A […]
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The Eternal Hunting Grounds
On April 24, Günter Pichler, a founding member and the first violinist of the Alban Berg Quartet, died at the age of 85. Here, Krzysztof Chorzelski, the violist of the Belcea Quartet, remembers the great musician who was his mentor. When I was a teenager living in Poland, I discovered the Alban Berg Quartet’s recording […]
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“All you had to do was go on Google”
Before conductor Frédéric Chaslin asked her if she would be interested in meeting Jeffrey Epstein, the former French philosophy student, who was 21 at the time, had only exchanged a handful of messages on Facebook with him. One day in 2013, Chaslin asked the student, who requested anonymity, if she would like to interpret for […]
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Emails Raise Questions About Conductor’s Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
“I found a great girl for your next stay in Paris,” the conductor Frédéric Chaslin wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in September 2013. Chaslin told the financier, who first pleaded guilty of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor in 2008, that the girl was a 21-year-old philosophy student who spoke three […]
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The Paternal Presence
The last time I saw Christoph von Dohnányi was at a lovely dinner at his apartment in Munich this last June. We were celebrating a positive health report his wife Barbara had just received and the mood was easy, relaxed, and convivial. The conversation with CvD covered enormous ground, as it always did—he spoke with […]
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Gagged!
Contracts seen by VAN show that the management of Northern Ballet has inserted a confidentiality clause into the agreements for its freelance musicians. In this agreement, which VAN understands has been in place since the start of the year, the artist “shall make no adverse or derogatory comment or announcement to the public press, social […]