We’re hearing from Warsaw that the Polish tenor Piotr Beczala changed his recital programme at the last minute to eliminate a group of Russian songs.
He said he was ‘furious’ at the deal the Russians and Americans are imposing on Ukraine.
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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.
The Marin Symphony has named Fawzi Haimor as its incoming music director, starting September. Haimor, 41, was born in Chicago and raised in Saudi Arabia. His father is Jordanian-Lebanese and his mother is from the […]
The National Symphony Orchestra has erased the start of its season. Statement from the Kennedy Center: After months of largely collaborative and constructive labor negotiations, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) are […]
