Not much is going right for music in the Midlands.
This is an advertisement running on the buses.
It shows an old man playing music too loud because he is deaf.
Just the image the orchestra want to avoid.
But even the National Express West Midlands has got a negative perception.
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An extraordinary take on the Purcell ode by Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, recorded in Leningrad in 1959. Beautiful in quite unexpected ways. The post Dido laments in Russian appeared first on Slippedisc.
Barrie Gavin died yesterday. One of the most energetic young producers on David Attenborough’s BBC2 channel, Gavin formed a creative relationship with Pierre Boulez and later with Karlheinz Stockhausen, gaining access to the cutting edge […]
In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “You try lots of things,” […]
