Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

Maureen Carr, founding director of the Penn State School of Music, has died aged 85. She was an assiduous Stravinsky researcher, visiting the Paul Sacher archives in Basel no fewer than 27 times for manuscript […]

Riccardo Muti will conduct the annual Strauss fest for the seventh time… so not many surprises. Except for the appearance of Constanze Geiger in the second half. She’s a little-known 19th century composer and singer. […]

  Colonel Arnald Gabriel, a war hero, became conductor of the US Air Force Band. His musicians esteeked him. Watch. The post US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.