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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The Monteverdi Choir and soloists will open the Edinburgh Festival with John Tavener’s eight-hour choral epic, The Veil of The Temple. The choir will be conducted by its new director, the British-Swiss baritone Jonathan Sells […]
The death has been made known of the American tenor saxophone and clarinet virtuoso John Ruocco, director of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and of The Hague Conservatory big band. He was 72. Born in September […]
The Wigmore Hall informs us that HM The King has chosen Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans as his official harpist. Mared says: ‘It is an honour to be appointed as Harpist to His Majesty The King, it’s a […]
