The 17th century stables at Nevill Holt which now house the theatre Following a sharp pivot after the abbreviated 2023 opera season, the Nevill Holt Festival was inaugurated this year under the direction of James […]
The Philadelphia Orchestra are putting a brave face on the almost-instant departure of CEO Matias Tarnopolsky to head up the New York Philharmonic. Tarnopolsky leaves in less than a month, no time at all to […]
The orchestra board has just announced that Matías Tarnopolsky will become the New York Philharmonic’s President and CEO, effective January 1, 2025. As foretold in slippedisc.com. The imperative was to find an executive whoi gets […]
Cornell University has an enlightening interview with its emeritus professor Neal Zaslaw, 85, the man behind the updating of Mozart and his works…. only 24 years behind deadline. When the contract for the new Köchel […]
Best known for his music for the German TV series “Schwarzwaldklinik”, the Austrian composer Hans Hammerschmid has died quietly at home. Originally a jazz pianist, he wrote and performed many songs with Hildegard Knef. He […]
We have learned belatedly of the death in October of the influential Swedish composer Jan W. Morthenson. He was 84. Morthenson developed three periods and styles – non-figurative music, meta-music and existentialist music. The first […]
Julia Albrecht has left KD Schmid for CCM, where she will be Director of Artists & Development. After more than two decades at Schmid, whe will not have overview of such artists as Hélène Grimaud, […]
A friend came back fro KOKO last night, enthusing about a gig by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his pianist sister, Isata. There were 800 young people crowding out the venue, having a really good time. […]
From our Finland correspondent: Sibelius wrote many songs including ‘Was it a Dream?’ and ‘The girl returned from meeting her lover’ for the soprano Ida Ekman who, on several accounts, he considered as the only […]
Cellist Josep Castanyer Alonso of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has issued a video of himself playing the Maria Carey hit in the style of six composers. Josep samples Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and […]
