Arguably the least musical US national anthem

The German Music Information Center has published a survey showing that 16.3 million people aged six and ove regularly play music, around 21 percent of the population. What is striking is that the figure is […]

Here’s another rare memento of Myra, ten years after the previous collectible. She has a splendidly leisured way of telling an anecdote.   The post Myra Hess: the Proms interview appeared first on Slippedisc.

The British actor has been commissioned by the Opéra de Paris to direct Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, his operatic debut. Semyon Bychkov will conduct. Boris Pinkhasovich sings the title role. Fiennes played the role himself in […]