Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]
New Zealand Opera’s general director, Brad Cohen, has devised a way to send simultaneous texts to braille-reading machines for audience members who have trouble reading the surtitles above the stage. A small step, but life […]
There was a concert last night at Salle Colonne in memory of Bruno Ducol, whose death on January 11 went unreported in French media. A student of Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer, Ducol became immersed in […]