The high point of the Lucerne Strings performance in Istanbul was a hightailed intervention by a local stray.
As soon as the cat saw there was no conductor, it quickened the tempo.
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Bessie Smith was a blues and jazz singer of the Harlem Renaissance who is still known as the ‘Empress of the Blues’. Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Smith was the youngest child of seven, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee […]
Here’s another rare memento of Myra, ten years after the previous collectible. She has a splendidly leisured way of telling an anecdote. The post Myra Hess: the Proms interview appeared first on Slippedisc.
The dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison died yesterday in a Manhattan hospital. A titanic figure, rising to five-foot-ten, she commanded the stage until Mikhail Baryshnikov arrived, at which point they arrested global attention as the […]
