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.
The post Musicians who look like their pets: (1) Stravinsky and his cats appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival has fallen this year to Hayato Sumino. The Japanese pianist, known as ‘Cateen’, has a million Youtube subscribers. He is 29 and moves, the citation says, […]
The Head of Strings at Latymer Upper School will stand trial at the City of London Magistrates Court in September, accused of stalking an instrument dealer, which she denies. Helen Neilson is alleged to have […]
,%20Flores%20(Issicratea)%20©%20Clemens%20Manser%20Photography.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Photo essay: Cavalli's Pompeo Magno at the 2025 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival")
Cavalli: Pompeo Magno – Nicolò Balducci (Sesto), Mariana Flores (Issicratea) – Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2025 (Photo: © Clemens Manser Photography) Cavalli’s opera Pompeo Magno (Pompey the Great) was premiered in Venice in 1666 at […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Celebrating the eclectic life of pioneering crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall for Bloomsbury Festival")
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann")
