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.
The post British jazz mourns Dave Silk appeared first on Slippedisc.
The much-loved conductor, who died in December 2019, has been honoured by his home state of Latvia with a postage stamp in his memory. Mariss was music director of the Oslo Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Concertgebouw […]
The Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellowship, founded by Patricia Haitink, has placed a young American on a two-year internship with Sir Simon Rattle at Munich’s BRSO. Sasha Scolnik-Brower, 29, was previously a conducting fellow at the […]
The Armernian baritone David Babayants saved Giordano’s opera at the Vienna State Opera last night, rushing over for the third act after Luca Salsi was doubled up with sickness. Der Standard reports: ‘The curtain had […]
