The Israel Philharmonic has pushed back its season-opening concert to November 4, due to artist cancellations and other considerations.
Maxim Vengerov can’t make the date and will be replaced in the Mendelssohn concerto by Mark Bouchkov.
Semyon Bychkov has told the orchestra he’s not quite ready to return after back surgery. Lahav Shani will conduct Mahler 6.
The post Bychkov and Vengerov cancel, Israel Phil postpones opener appeared first on Slippedisc.
Gregory Hines Tribute to Gene Kelly This is one of my favourite dance sequences. It’s from the 1982 Kennedy Center Honors and this is my old friend the late Gregory Hines paying tribute to Gene Kelly. […]
A group of singers rehearsing an October 7 memorial concert were forced to take shelter yesterday in the basement of the Israel Opera as 181 ballistic missiles from Iran rained down. Underground, they carried on […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A themed programme with an imaginative difference: Music from Pole to Pole with City of London Sinfonia and atmospheric physicist Dr Simon Clark")
