The death is reported of the Scottish pianist Robert Sutherland, at the age of 94.
Sutherland was a friend of Maria Callas. He wrote a memoir of their last tour together, claiming that she was prone to racist and homophobic outbursts, and that she tried to seduce him.
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New is just in that Hamburg Ballet has terminated its director Demis Volpi amid recent talk of a toxic work environment. Volpi succeeded the long-serving John Neumeier a year ago. Summary dismissal is hiughly unusual […]
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The press statement is unusually succinct: ‘Local 161-710, American Federation of Musicians announced today that the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) have unanimously voted to authorize a strike against their employer, the John […]
