A quick update o the activities of the Oxford Philharmonic today, an orchestra we have featured several times before! … remember the Vengerov Brahms Gala? 10th April – In this concert that features Humperdinck’s Prelude from […]
Message received: Do you want to be part of our Choir? Until May 20, you can participate in the audition and the international competition for places in the Theater Choir alla Scala. apply here. […]
Like President Trump, you never know what to expect in the city of Peaky Blinders. Our mole scuttled out Symphony Hall a few hours ago. Tonight’s performance of Mahler Symphony No 9 at Symphony Hall […]
An appeal has been raised for the widow and daughter of LA Opera concertmaster Roberto Cani. After a brave battle with cancer, Roberto left us far too soon, leaving behind his beloved wife Elena and […]
We reported yesterday that Abigail Pogson, head of the Gateshead Glasshouse (formerly Sage), had refused to sign Nicholas Serota’s letter defending the Council’s box-ticking Let’s Create policy. Pogson, a Council member for the past three […]
We understand that David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for 25 years and a faculty member at Juilliard, is giving it all up to be full-time professor of violin at Rice University’s Shepherd […]
Floridante (1721) was the second full length work which Handel composed for his opera company, the Royal Academy of Music (in between that and Radamisto in 1720 had come his one Act contribution to Muzio […]
And the orchestra plays on, under its American conductor Hobart Earle. The post On April 10, 1944 Odesa was liberated. Today, its concerthall is bombed appeared first on Slippedisc.
The regulatory Ofcom has authorised the BBC to continue with Radio 3 Unwind, the classical station’s slow-paced subsidiary. The sub-channel will remain on BBC Sounds and will now become available on DAB+ digital radio. The […]
The German violinist Eckart Lorentzen brought the Isael Opera audience to its feet after playing his final performance. He joined the Israel Symphony Orchestra in 1997. Before that, from 1984 to 1987 Eckart had played […]
