Trying to Be Heard: Our Quest for Louder Instruments
Germany
On-Stage Accident Results in Conductor’s Tragic Death
Swiss conductor Carl Robert Helg has died after an accident during a rehearsal for a gala concert at the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Tearing Down The Berlin Wall Again
Daniel Barenboim returns to Berlin to mark a memorable date
Just days after the Berlin Wall fell, Daniel Barenboim conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in a concert for those who had been living in East Berlin. Now, 20 years later, Barenboim returns to conduct a concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Edward Downes at Bayreuth
Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth. Brigitte Hamann (Author), Alan Bance (Translator)
Here are more of the memoirs of musicologist and broadcaster Edward Downes (1911-2001) from taped interviews he gave in New York in 1995.
