The conductor and arranger Robin White has died after a richly fulfilling career, mainly in light-music and outdoor concerts.
A student of Vernon Handley, he gave concerts at National Trust properties across the south of England. He made several recordings that were much played on Classic FM.
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The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin. Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey […]
Our recent guest on the BBC Lebrecht Interview has been strutting her stuff with the Czech Philharmonic: The post Keeping up with Alisa appeared first on Slippedisc.
We have learned belatedly of the death in October of the influential Swedish composer Jan W. Morthenson. He was 84. Morthenson developed three periods and styles – non-figurative music, meta-music and existentialist music. The first […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Casting a spell: baritone Andrè Schuen & pianist Julius Drake in Schumann's Heine settings at Temple Church for Temple Music")
