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Eamon Dunphy has said he asked to take a 10pc pay cut from RTÉ following the economic crash because “I was paid too much”, as he said former director general (DG) Dee Forbes was being made a “patsy” by the broadcaster’s board over the Ryan Tubridy pay scandal.
The Philharmonia Orchestra has also launched its 2023/24 London season programme, featuring a series dedicated to the sounds of America
Commenting on the return of the Philharmonia to live music-making, Alexander Van Ingen, Chief Executive of the Philharmonia Orchestra, said: ‘We are hugely excited to return to our home at the Southbank Centre for these two concerts for a real, live audience. It is bittersweet that after 13 glorious years, Esa-Pekka will be finishing his tenure as Principal Conductor at the end of a Season that wasn’t as we originally planned it. And yet, two wonderful programmes with Yefim Bronfman and Mitsuko Uchida are a superb way of marking the occasion with as many people as are allowed in the Ro...
Joshua Kosman December 29, 2020Updated: December 30, 2020, 12:12 am San Francisco Symphony horn player Mark Almond. Photo: Kira Doherty Many people cultivate a side hustle, an interest outside their main career that can generate extra income, personal satisfaction or both. But it takes a certain amount of foresight — or maybe simple good luck — for someone to have a sideline in virology when a viral epidemic suddenly breaks out. Someone, say, like Mark Almond, the San Francisco Symphony’s new associate principal French horn player. Almond officially started his job at the b...