The American harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, the most recorded artist on her instrument, resigned last night in dismay from the embattled Cleveland Institute of Music. Oklahoma born, Yolanda is married to Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of […]
The Royal Northern Sinfonia has put on Michael Tippett’s oratorio in a performance involving amateur musicians and singers from across the North East of England. The idea is to underline the universality and topicality of […]
This is truly special. Rogier Michael, born in Mons, Belgium in around 1553 and died 1623, was a late example of the polyphonic Franco-Flemish school. His setting of the Weihnachtshisorie (Christmas story) dates from 1602 […]