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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The Norwegian string player Eivind Ringstad joined the London Symphony Orchestra earlier this year as principal viola. As of this week, he is also professor of viola at the Royal College of Music. The RCM’s […]
In the thick of Covid, Russian-trained singers who had taken up cantor positions in the US put together this historic polyglot document. The post A Hebrew prayer, in Russian and English appeared first on Slippedisc.
Best known these days (if at all) for his operetta Merrie England, Edward German (1862-1936) was once highly respected. Sir Arthur Sullivan once famously said of German that he was “the one man to follow […]
