We understand that the Department for Giovernment Efficiency has terminated all four of the American Musicological Society’s NEH grants. The Societys executive director writes: ‘As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved to oppose these cuts and find alternative sources of funding.’
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La Fille mal gardée – Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells Review by Alastair Macaulay Frederick Ashton’s full-length ballet “La Fille mal gardée” (1960) is a comic study of rural innocence that runs far deeper […]
A recording of piano music by the esoteric Scotsman Ronald Stevenson was last night awarded Classical Record of the Year at Grammis 2025, the Swedish record industry’s annual bash. The recording, on the Finnish label […]
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