The Israeli double bassist Avishai Cohen, dropped earlier this week by a Warsaw festival for performing in Moscow, has now been cancelled on July 13-14 at the Walden Festival in Brussels.
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Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (Photo supplied by BFI) Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary 1925 silent film, Battleship Potemkin is widely considered a masterpiece in early cinema. It was inspired by the failed 1905 Russian Revolution and its iconic […]
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has announced the death of baritone Alan Watt, a valued member of the teaching staff from 1995 to 2019. Born in Aberdeen, Watt sang leading roles with British companies performed […]
The buildings that house the Rachmaninoff Museum and its refular concerts on Bolshaya Ordynka have been reclaimed by the city authorities after the museum’s lease expired. The collection, founded by pianist Viktor Merzhanov, is now […]
