Duke Ellington We talked last week about the great Duke Ellington and his work with the equally great Ella Fitzgerald, whose birthday it was, without my noticing that this week is the 186th birthday of […]
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe and the US drew a tsunami of responses, mostly defending the current administrative practice of seeking to balance – that is, manipulate – new entrants to orchestra […]
Xiaogang Ye is no strange to Classical Explorer: nice to see a whole disc of his chamber music on the Resonus label. This music here, spans over three decades of Ye’s chamber works from 1989 […]