Charlie Parker guitarist dies at 97

In my very early teens, I sneaked into an over-16s ‘A’ film of an all-black casting of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Never having seen Carmen in an opera house, I was overwhelmed and not a little […]

Robert Jindra has resigned as chief conductor of the Košice State Philharmonic, in Slovakia. The Czech maestro had previouslky issued a blast at the country’s Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová for dismissing the heads of the […]

Here’s the Apple top ten: 1 Sleep Max Richter 2 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf 3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Garrick Ohlsson […]