A sound engineer at the BBC for the whole of his salaried life, Dave Silk was a nighttime legend on the Jazz circuit, playing silky bass like a master of old.
Dave trained at the Royal Academy of Music and was a testing leader of sound crews in studio.
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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 BBC is reporting that members of the Welsh National Opera orchestra have accepted a pay deal after a year of protests. The price is the loss of 10 positions, which are curretnyl vacant. WNO […]
Remember the London Chamber Orchestra, which went bust a year back? Many players are unlikely ever to be paid, says the Musicians Union: Dear Member, I am writing to update you on our efforts to […]
