The death has been announced of Bette Eilers, who became Principal Trumpet in the Chicago Civic Orchestra at the age of 17.
In 1954, she began playing with the Chicago Symphony under Fritz Reiner, and later with Leopold Stokowski and Pierre Boulez. She was playing at theLyric Opera when Artur Rodzinski fired the principal horn and the other women walked out.
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We have been informed of the death of Brian Buggy, influential music director of the Sydney Youth Orchestra. The post Australian conductor dies appeared first on Slippedisc.
The legendary tabla player, composer, actor and producer Zakir Hussain died today in a US hospital at the age of 73. A government minister declared him ‘irreplaceable’. Zakir Hussain shot to fame in the 1970s, […]
We’ve stumbled across this gorgeous new piece, commissioned in memory of the British nurse Edith Cavell who was executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium in the First World War. It’s by Ryan Linham with […]
