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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Recorded at the University of Surrey, this is a rather nice introduction to the music of Charles Shadle, who currently teaches at MIT; his own teachers include Harold Shapio. The first three pieces on this […]
Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]
The conductor Daniel Lipton, founder of Opera Bogotá in Colombia and opera Ontario in Canada, has died in reitrement in Tampa, Florida. Born in Paris to refugee parents, Lipton was General Music Director in Dessau, […]
