Just in: Kennedy Center chief quits
Deborah Rutter, President of the Kennedy Center since 2014, has decided to quit at the end of this year. She has given no reason. Might have something to do with the Trump era. Rutter, 68, […]
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Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale
Here’s the orchestra’s publicity for its next concerts. Your thoughts? The post Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale appeared first on Slippedisc.
Breaking: Spanish orchestra sacks US conductor
The Euskadiko Orkestra in the Basque region of Spain today abruptly terminated the contracts of chief conductor Robert Trevino and general director Oriol Roch. Trevino, who had been in the post for eight years, had […]
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): A Composer of the Highest Level
By Barry Lenson Clara Schumann, as you almost certainly know, was the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, who lived from 1810 until 1856. You probably also know that Clara was one of the finest […]
Composer Profile . . . Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847): Felix Mendelssohn’s Sister and Much, Much More
By Barry Lenson We recently profiled Clara Schumann, a supremely gifted composer who was married to Robert Schumann. Today, we would like to turn our attention to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, another astonishingly talented woman composer […]
Death of a Nessun Dorma tenor, 59
Friends are reporting the death from a heart attack of Paul Charles Clarke, an international English tenor. Hailing from Liverpool, he won the Kathleen Ferrier prize and went on to sing abroad at Dallas Opera, […]
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Transported by Culture: a new music programme brings young musicians from London conservatoires to the London Transport Museum
If you have visited the London Transport Museum at all, recently, then it is likely to have been for its iconic transport collection. After all, few of us can resist an historic bus or a […]
Death of a leading Japanese conductor
We have been notified of the death of the international Japanese conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama, at the age of 84. Music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra for four decades, 1964 to 2004, he was transformational […]
Reynaldo Hahn looks back: real Belle Époque in the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s programme centred on Hahn’s Piano Quintet from the 1920s
Reynaldo Hahn in 1906 Ravel, Fauré, Lili Boulanger, Saint-Saens, Hahn: Piano Quartet; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective; Wigmore HallReviewed 26 January 2025 Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Quartet undoubtedly looks back, so this programme took that as its cue […]
Yuja Wang breaks into dance
She appeared this weekend with the New York Philharmonic and New York City Ballet’s principal ballerina Tiler Peck. They performed a twirl together. Beat that. The post Yuja Wang breaks into dance appeared first on […]
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