La Phil calls off concerts amid civil unrest
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All concerts and opera are cancelled in Graz
Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]
Window of opportunity: City Music Foundation opens applications for its 2025 programme
CMF Artists Connaught Brass City Music Foundation (CMF) is opening its 2025 programme to applications from Friday 13 June 2025, giving emerging professional performers across classical, jazz, folk and world music genres – both soloists […]
Esprit Submergé: French string quartet Page Blanche give the first UK performances of Luke Styles’ new string quartet
Page Blanche is a string quartet made up of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, but with a twist they are violin, viola, cello and double bass (Joseph André, Flore-Anne Brosseau, Paul-Marie Kuzma, Ulysse Vigreux). […]
Schubert and Byrd at Wigmore Hall: Mishka Rushdie Momen impresses, again
Schubert, Byrd Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1130 am, 8.6.2025 Schubert Piano Sonatas: A minor, D 784 (1823); C minor, D 958 (1828) Byrd Prelude in A minor. Fantasia in A minor. I was […]
Wilson’s final Rachmaninoff installment. I’m glad it’s done.
I really enjoyed John Wilson’s 2022 Rach 3 (much more than his Rach 2), finding his straightforward, no-nonsense approach worked quite well in that piece. So I was really looking forward to hearing what he […]
US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday
Colonel Arnald Gabriel, a war hero, became conductor of the US Air Force Band. His musicians esteeked him. Watch. The post US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.
Breaking: ‘Toxic’ Hamburg Ballet chief is fired after a year
New is just in that Hamburg Ballet has terminated its director Demis Volpi amid recent talk of a toxic work environment. Volpi succeeded the long-serving John Neumeier a year ago. Summary dismissal is hiughly unusual […]
Arts Council England drops its pants for smaller bodies
The hopelessly discredited funding body announced a major U-turn today. After years of complaint that it was making arts orgs spend more time on filling forms than making art, it has eased the rules for […]
Boston Symphony upgrades a violinist
Sophie Wang, in her third year with the orchestra, has been promoted to associate concertmaster, effectively number three in the violins. She inherit the seat of Alexander Velinzon who was made first associate concertmaster last […]
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