There’s a famous 1947 Cartier-Bresson photograph of Igor plus Puss which we can’t reproduce.
The composer was feline in so many ways.
And he composed The Owl and the Pussycat, a forerunner to theLloyd Webber musical, CATS.
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In our report on Wednesday’s performance of the Babi Yar Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall, we found cause to praise the ‘impressive performance of the London Philharmonic male chorus’. This drew a prompt request […]
Palestrina 500: Palestrina, Pierre de Manchicourt, William Byrd, Lassus, Victoria; Augsburger Domsingknaben, I Fedeli, Stefan Steinemann; ARS ProduktionReviewed by Andreas Rey (7 September 2025) A brotherhood in which noise would be replaced by silence, in […]
From Ronald Blum of the Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped slightly following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that coincided with a decrease in tourists to New York. The Met […]
