The Cleveland composer H. Leslie Adams who wrote songs and pianio suites with African-American themes, has died in his home town, aged 91.
His largest work is a m usic drama, Blake, on the lives of enslaved people in the mid-19th century.
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The Royal Musical Association marks its 150th anniversary with a conference in London this week. Keynote speaker will be the New Yorker critic Alex Ross. His paper is titled: ‘The End of the Family Line: […]
Bruckner BBC Singers / Owain Park (conductor); Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Peternko (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.9.2024 Bruckner Os justi (1879). Locus iste (1869). Chrisus factus est (1884) Symphony No. 5 in B […]
It has been three years since our last power list of women conductors, and most of the names remain the same. Cuddly pictures of three women at Bayreuth confirm a perceptual shift but, with Chicago, […]
