The Russian-born conductor of the Czech Philharmonic tells David Krauss in Speaking Soundly that he learned to manage pre-concert tension by playing volleyball from age 10 to 18 with Dynamo Leningrad.
‘My piano teacher was furious,’ he says. ‘Somehow I never injured my fingers.’
On his very first day in New York, he met two nieces of Rachmaninov, one of them Tchaikovsky’s god-daughter….
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Martin Leginus yesterday resigned as music director of the Slovak National Theatre, against a backdrop of Government interference. Leginus is a close friend of Robert Jindra, who quit as chiec conductor of the Kosice State […]
Go on, then. Give us a better caption. Sunny, from Vienna, studies at the Universität Mozarteum. The post So shocked I fell off my piano appeared first on Slippedisc.
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – Adam Temple-Smith, Michael Mofidian – The Grange Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) June on Planet Hugill: Holland Park, the Grange, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne and beyond. Our latest newsletter has landed on MadMimi and on […]
