Last night, the Russians bombed the home of the rector of the Kyiv Conservatory, also known as the National Music Academy.
‘Our home was directly hit,’ said Maksym Tymoshenko Many in Kyiv spent the night in shelters.
Two people were killed.
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The music collection of Liverpool flautist and humourist Fritz Spiegl (1926-2003) is up for sale at Sotheby’s next week, July 11. It includes a letter in English from Mendelssohn, and plenty from more recent English […]
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Any guesses? He came into the world in West Hartlepool, the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and entered the Royal Academy of Music as a violinist. He came out a violist, the first to make a […]
