Statue of Wu Po-tchao, founder of the Junior Program and President of the Nanking State Conservatory. Front yard of the Junior Program Memorial Hall, with Wu's composition on the background wall. This past August, I took my daughter to Changzhou, a city about 1 hour west of Shanghai by high-speed rail, to the old location of the Nanking State Conservatory Junior Program, where my father and uncle studied classical music over 80 years ago. Now part of the Changzhou No. 1 High School compound,...

From the archive of Musikhaus Doblinger For music lovers, recent news about the possible closing of the famous music store, the Musikhaus Doblinger is concerning, to say the least. For myself, every time I go to Vienna, I’d go to Dorotheergasse 10, the location Doblinger has been situated since 1873. It’s not just the selection of sheet music, books and souvenirs, it’s a pilgrimage. Even flipping through the volumes stacked in old wooden cases and smelling the scent of the years would keep me...

A Conductor Who Reconnected China’s Classical Music with the World Sir Andrew Davis, famed British conductor, died of leukemia on April...