After 24 years as concertmaster, the English violinist Katherine Hunka is leaving the Irish Chamber Orchestra to pursue other challenges.
She explains: ‘I always wanted to avoid cynicism.’
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced the death of Jehoash Hirschberg, who taught in its department of musicology from 1971. Hirchberg was the biographer of the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim. He also write books […]
A Chinese study suggests that listening to classical music while eating a meal is likely to reduce your intake and, specifically, your craving for fatty foods. Abstract follows. Studies have shown that there is a […]
These days, she confines herself to the first piano concerto. But then the second was written first (see Why Beethoven). The post Martha plays the second Beethoven appeared first on Slippedisc.
