The Fort Wayne Philharmonic has thrown a farewell party for Adrian Mann, its long-serving principal double-bass. He’s not leaving, though.
Adrian, whose father was the noted musicologist Alfred Mann, is still turning up for work in his other job as staff librarian.
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Mozart’s Requiem: David Crown conducts Cheltenham Bach Choir and the Musical & Amicable Society at Cheltenham Town Hall This year the Cheltenham Music Festival celebrated its 80th birthday [see my review of the closing concert]. The […]
The newly remastered Carnegie Hall concert of December 8, 1957. Unbelievably intense. The post Watch: Jussi Björling comemmorates Jean Sibelius appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Amsterdam concert hall surprised its Sunday-morning soloist today with the award of a long-service medal. Ronald Brautigam had just finished the third Beethoven piano concerto with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra when General manager Simon […]
