It’s curtains for the Vle of Glamorgan Festival which has been presenting new works each years since 1969. Composer Huw Watkins says on its website: ‘This wonderful festival has championed an enormous range of composers […]
Carolina Codina married Sergei Prokofiev in 1923, returned with him to Moscow in 1936, was dumped by her husband four years later and would up in one of Stalin’s gulags. Now, a Polish play in […]
From an interview with Bruce Duffie in 2005: Many young conductors come up and ask for advice. It is hard, you know. The first thing is that real talent needs not so much advice. It […]