Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Philharmonic’

The Paris Philharmonie, 15 Months Later

Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

By: Frank Cadenhead The new Philharmonie de Paris, open now one year and three months, has had a remarkable success by any measure, particularly with winning new audiences and attracting old audiences to the new locale. It is now one of Europe’s principle venues and the whirl of talent on stage practically every night gives […]

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J’accuse! A failure of American Musical Journalism.

Friday, September 25th, 2015

By: Frank Cadenhead Here is the story: a young black conductor from Charleston, South Carolina just triumphed over 237 other candidates to win victory in one of the top conducting competitions in the world. This was on Sunday, September 20 at the competition in Besançon, France. He was just 23, seven to ten years younger […]

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Drumroll for the Timpanist

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

By: Frank Cadenhead Adrien Perruchon, 32, timpanist of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, has received a scholarship awarded by the “Dudamel Fellowship Program” created by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is one of three young leaders awarded the Dudamel Fellowship for 2015/16 and is expected to conduct a concert of the […]

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